In Praise of Walking

"Fascinating ... O’Mara argues [walking] is intimately connected to our bodies, our brains, and ultimately how we exist as a species"

The Times

"In Praise of Walking is both informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch potato – perhaps saving humanity before our lifestyle consumes our brains completely"

Jonathon Keats, New Scientist

"Convincing and compelling ... In Praise of Walking is peppered with insights about everything from 19th-century poets and flâneurs to modern-day experiments with subjects playing video games in fMRI scanners"

Sunday Times

"Walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier ... [O'Mara] knows this not only through personal experience, but from cold, hard data"

Observer

"Full of insights… an accessible and thought-provoking discussion of walking as a key to human success"

Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain, Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain

"A book that will leave you itching to go out for a good old-fashioned stroll"

Mail on Sunday

"A fascinating new book that examines the multitudinous benefits of this form of locomotion"

Harper's Bazaar

"Like a poem to walking… [and] the science that might help convince planners to prioritise walking as a means of getting around"

Lucy Whetman, UK Press Syndication

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Forget apples. A walk a day really will keep the doctor away

Evening Standard

"[In Praise of Walking] it provides an antidote to the many miseries that can accumulate because of our modern, sedentary lifestyle"

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