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Here is a book in which the striding energy of the prose matches its subject. -Iain Sinclair, author of <i>American Smoke</i> Wonderfully authoritative vindication of what ought to be a self-evident truth: that running should be about being alive, not being a consumer. -Richard Askwith, author of <i>Running Free</i></p> Insightful and intoxicating. Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book makes you take your shoes off and run through a world of ideas about nature. --Lynne Truss, author of <i>Eats, Shoots and Leaves</i> and <i>A Certain Age</i></p> <i>Footnotes</i> is a blazing achievement. --Kate Norbury, author of <i>Caught by the River</i></p> <i>Footnotes </i>puts forward an impassioned and energetic case for the mechanics behind the joy of running. It might even see you getting out of your chair and doing something more interesting instead.Few have done it so artfully and completely --<i>The Literary Review </i>(UK)</p> <i>Footnotes </i>is an entertaining combination of personal narrative and rich literary episodes. Delightful --<i>The Times Literary Supplement</i> (UK)</p>

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VYBARR CREGAN-REID is a Reader in English and Environmental Humanities at the University of Kent. He has written on and been interviewed about running in major publications all over the world. He has also written numerous articles and essays for academic journals and a book on Victorian culture, Discovering Gilgamesh. He lives in the UK.

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