On Looking : A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation (Paperback)

from jjvors

On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz is a delightful examination of our senses. The author takes walks with experts from different genera who provide varying perspectives on the urban environment that she walks every day. Ms. Horowitz begins by walking with her toddler ...

from dele2451

The premise is very intriguing and I did feel like I was getting to tag along with the various experts as they reviewed Manhattan and other cityscapes. Including the blind woman was a particularly interesting twist. I enjoyed the book quite a bit but, once I finished it, I realized I was still wa...

from BoundTogetherForGood

This was a fun book even though it wasn't quite what I had expected it to be. Alexandra took 11 walks, I think, with a variety of specialists, in an attempt to try to SEE the things she had been missing in her daily walks. Her eyes were opened to a lot of things. As I watched it, I was driving on...

from encephalical

The best chapters contain entertaining stories of the author's walks with various domain specialists - an entomologist, a sound engineer, etc. The chapters where Horowitz imposes an interpretation on someone else's experience, her young son, her dog, were less interesting to me because of their a...

from margaret.pinard

Fantastic! The author does a great job of sampling many different sciences to give the layman or -woman a new way of perceiving the ordinary environment. I turned down a lot of pages with new terms, funny moments, and interesting facts. For example: a thigmotaxic animal is one who likes keeping i...