Ebook: On the Wandering Paths

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

Part literary adventure, part philosophical reflection on our contemporary consumer culture, On the Wandering Paths takes us deep into the heart of France’s “hyperrural” zones. Tracing the obscure paths peasants once followed throughout the countryside, the French writer Sylvain Tesson embarks on a three-month journey of solitude and personal contemplation in this meditation on the act of recovery.