In Praise of Walking is a truly interesting book about one of the things that most of us take for granted. It is full of historical and new research on why we evolved to walk on two feet and the importance it has on both out mental and physical wellbeing. Easy to read and often inspiring.

Given the state of the world and the forced period of staying put, there's a newfound love of walking amongst us. With this in mind, it was interesting to broach the topic from a curious perspective, but it felt a bit more weighty science than the popular science promised. Interesting stuff in there, though.

I've started walking recently, and I know how it affects my mood and wellbeing. This book thought me a lot about walking, and it made me walk a lot more. But, I felt that some chapters could've been shorter and I must admit I skipped most of the science-heavy parts of the book. All in all, I enjoyed reading this, and it gave me a lot to talk about with fellow walkers.

I enjoy walking, so this book seemed a good fit for me.

The first 10% of the book is very thorough, going through the importance of walking from a neuroscience perspective, and I did wonder at this point what else he could find to say about walking: whether the rest was just going to be filler content.

I was glad to discover that I was wrong. Moving from the neuroscience in the first 10% he moves into a wide range of other areas: genetics, developmental biology, bipedal adaption, how we learn to walk, how walking works (the complex brain systems involved), the brains mapping system, urban planning, walking in nature and creativity in walking.

This book is well written and easy to read - using sciencific experiments frequently to illustrate his point, and has case studies from all over the world.

An interesting read about something that we all do (and probably should do more of!)

Very informative and I liked that it tackled the subject of walking from so many angles. I would have liked some chapters to be shorter - the ones on neuroscience, it felt like it took a lot of the book - and some longer (the history of walking, urban planning and pedestrians...) but overall I learned a lot from reading it and found it well-written and easy to follow.