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Book SynopsisRunning is not just a sport. It reconnects us to our bodies and the places in which we live, breaking down our increasingly structured and demanding lives. This book explores human desire to run. It shows why feeling the earth beneath our feet is a necessary and healing part of our lives.
Trade ReviewA wonderfully subtle and ambitious book -- P.D. Smith * Guardian *
Insightful and intoxicating. Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book makes you take your shoes off and run through a world of ideas about nature. -- Lynne Truss
Delightful * The Times Literary Supplement *
Footnotes is a blazing achievement. -- Kate Norbury * Caught by the River *
Few have done it so artfully and completely. -- Oliver Balch * Literary Review *
Here is a book in which the striding energy of the prose matches its subject. -- Iain Sinclair
Wonderfully authoritative vindication of what ought to be a self-evident truth: that running should be about being alive, not being a consumer. * Richard Askwith - author of Running Free: A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature *
It’s hard to imagine a more compelling or poetic running companion than Vybarr Cregan-Reid. He inspires us not just to run, but to be truly alive while we are doing it. -- Scarlett Thomas
A brilliant, broad-ranging and beautiful book. Like a great run into a wild landscape, it opens the heart and the mind, taking you off into the unknown, delighting at every turn and returning you changed for the better. -- Rob Cowen - author of Common Ground
