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ISBN10: 2709621517
ISBN13: 9782709621519
Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
Published: May 3 2000
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782709621519
Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
Published: May 3 2000
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Each year, in France alone, more than thirty million people set off for a short walk or a long hike on countryside trails. At least as many are potential readers of this charming, intuitive book where nature, science, history and literature mix for a delightful and informative read. Walking the most frequent activity of man once he learns it as a one-year-old, moreover since the human ape stood up on its two feet about three million years ago. Pure necessity, but also an art form that has been slowly disappearing since civilization invented the vehicle.
Walking a necessity for well being, but above all an immense pleasure. The sheer joy of making your muscles move, breathing, perspiring and feeling your body respond to effort.
The wonders that a stroll in the country can do, the feeling of communion with nature or with a city, the mountains, the seacoast. The colors, perfumes, tastes, chance encounters, revelations, humorous incidents and moments of pure poetry that never fail to entertain the mindful walker. Writer and naturalist, Yves Paccalet has co-authored over thirty books with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, as well as his biography, recently published with Lattès. He is also the author of a novel, L'Azur! L'Azur! and an illustrated album L'Enchantement des Fleurs sauvages. He writes regularly for Geo Magazine and Le Nouvel Observateur.
The wonders that a stroll in the country can do, the feeling of communion with nature or with a city, the mountains, the seacoast. The colors, perfumes, tastes, chance encounters, revelations, humorous incidents and moments of pure poetry that never fail to entertain the mindful walker. Writer and naturalist, Yves Paccalet has co-authored over thirty books with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, as well as his biography, recently published with Lattès. He is also the author of a novel, L'Azur! L'Azur! and an illustrated album L'Enchantement des Fleurs sauvages. He writes regularly for Geo Magazine and Le Nouvel Observateur.
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