Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
By Robert Lawrence France. Cambridge Scholars, 2020.
Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi describes a peripatetic pilgrimage that is equal parts a daily description of a 200-kilometre walk from the “wounded mountain” of La Verna to the “tortured river” near Assisi, and an examination of the incredible debt owed to Italy in terms of ecocultural and environmental thought. Rooted in the philosophy of Tim Ingold (Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, 2011), the book provides an ...