The Art Of Walking: A History in 100 Images by William Chapman Sharpe

The Art Of Walking: A History in 100 Images by William Chapman SharpeA lively and thought provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of walking images from cave art to contemporary performance, William Chapman Sharpe reveals that a depicted walk is always more than a matter of simple steps. Whether sculpted in stone, painted on a wall, or captured on film, each detail of gait and dress, each stride and gesture has a story to tell,

wind and cloud

The huge mass of High Crag and the north-eastern crags of Haystacks form a rain-threatened backdrop to this beautiful study of one of the less-visited tarns of the Lake District

The film dries to uniform transparent matt finish

This striking wooden locker shelf unit has three compartments

It provides a matte finish and dries very slowly

Here is the idyllic view opposite 'Cat Bells' from the top of Walla Crag

8 Sheets (Rolled)

Two Rivers was formed in 1976 and relocated to Pitt Mill

as they prepare to soak a few lonesome sheep

overlooked by Great Gable to its north-west

Land Healer is the story of Fiennes's ambition to bring back our flora and fauna - by reclaiming our traditions and trialling new experiments which could restore our symbiosis with our land

a gentle breeze was blowing