On the Wandering Paths
Tesson, Sylvain / Burk, Drew S.
A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425, 000 copies sold in France After a free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four months, the French writer Sylvain Tesson makes a promise to himself: if he’s ever able to walk again, he will traverse the entire country of France on foot. Part literary adventure, part philoso...