Walking on Thin Air - by Geoff Nicholson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Part urban explorer, part psychogeographer, rambler and flaneur, wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we do it, how it benefits us and, in some cases, how it damages and even destroys us. Deeply touching reflections on the nature of walking and mortality Author has written and published extensively and accessibly about walking (The Lost Art of Walking, Riverhead) Includes vivid vignettes of walking in Los Angeles and Death Valley. Fans of Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Travis Elborough, JG Ballard will love this book.

Review Quotes

"This pithy, erudite yet resolutely unpretentious book is a celebration of the invigorating, inspiring pleasures of strolling just for the sake of it." Buzzmag

Nicholson's genial exploration of this most ordinary, ubiquitous activity is lively and entertaining" Publisher's Weekly on The Lost Art of Walking

"The gifted, resourceful Geoff Nicholson here conducts the reader on a leisurely, entirely delightful ramble through the history and lore of walking" Washington Post's Book World
"Geoff Nicholson, the reigning master of obsessive black literary humor" GoodReads

About the Author

Geoff Nicholson was born in Sheffield and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Essex. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a furniture salesman, bookseller, dustman, security guard, gardener and chef. First published by J. G. Ballard in the legendary counter-cultural literary magazine Ambit, Nicholson is the author of over twenty books, which have been widely translated with one made into a Hollywood movie. These include the acclaimed novels Bleeding London (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), Gravity's Volkswagen and The City Under the Skin, as well as classics of psychogeographical non-fiction, The Lost Art of Walking and Walking in Ruins. He has written for publications including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, GQ, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, London Magazine, Literary Review and Gastronomica. He was prose editor at Ambit magazine, succeeding J.G. Ballard, and is currently a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Essex.