{"product_id":"walking-henry-david-thoreau-classics-collection-9781502930064","title":"Walking: (Henry David Thoreau Classics Collection)","description":"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived \"from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre,\" to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, \"There goes a Sainte-Terrer,\" a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50467137061138,"sku":"9781502930064","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a2db18fc-c38e-42e2-a641-b24947a3359f.jpg?v=1730129500","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-henry-david-thoreau-classics-collection-9781502930064","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}