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Mature Flâneur

Slow Travel Through Portugal, France, Italy and Norway

Tim Ward author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Collective Ink

Published:28th Jul '23

Should be back in stock very soon

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In the aftermath of the pandemic, author Tim Ward and his wife, Teresa, decided to leave their home and professional careers in the US to spend a year in Europe as flâneurs. The French word "flâneur" means one who “wanders without purpose, observing society.” As the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve explained it, to flâne “is the very opposite of doing nothing.” Indeed, it is to give yourself the gift of time: permission to live an unstructured life and, by so doing, discover something about the world, and about yourself. 

ISBN: 9781803415352

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

320 pages