In Motion

The Experience of Travel

Tony Hiss

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780367100797
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351177443
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into a unique and instantly recognizable (though previously undescribed) experience that can happen to us when we travel, a special understanding and ability that can leave us feeling exhilarated. He illustrates how throughout human history - from our ancestors walking upright for the first time to astronauts walking on the moon - we have repeatedly availed ourselves of this seemingly elusive quality, which he calls 'Deep Travel.'

The sensation of Deep Travel can overtake us, Hiss says, whenever we tap into a sophisticated, wide-awake awareness we all possess. With a wealth of examples - from evocative accounts of his own journeys to celebrated travel writing across the centuries - Hiss identifies and rescues this powerful capacity and sets out simple techniques for accessing it no matter where we are.

And this is only a jumping-off point for an original and penetrating explanation of how Deep Travel radically alters our perception of not only where we are but also when we are, by placing us in an 'extended present,' and how it acts as an open-sesame to enlarge and enrich the world around us. Going even further, he investigates how we can remain absolutely still but travel in time itself, as our horizons move backward to include layers of nature and human culture that have gone before, or project us forward to consider what our actions will mean to those who will inhabit our spot on earth a few generations from now.

Whether travel takes you around the corner or around the world, once you've read In Motion, no journey will ever feel the same.

Index

ABC News, 22, 23

“Abducting a General” (Leigh Fermor), 152–3

Abdullah, Morag Murray, 40–1

Acela Express, 323

active (REM) sleep, 196–7, 219

Adams, John, 326

adaptive significance, 262–3

Adventures in Afghanistan (Palmer), 41–3, 309–10

affordances, 90–3, 94, 96, 100, 207, 213, 288

Afghanistan, 40–3, 88, 309–10

Africa, 206, 257

African superplumes, 258–9, 261

“after-interval experience,” 215–16

After the Ice (Mithen), 26, 283

Age of Empathy (de Waal), 292

Aggstein, 164, 166

Agnew, Neville, 243–4

Alaska, 182

Algonquins, 225

Allman, John, 300–1

Allshouse, Robert H., 160

alpha predators, 303–4

already-there travel, 30–1, 32, 35, 59, 136, 186

American Museum of Natural History, 233–5, 238, 242–5, 263, 271

American Revolution, 158

American Scientist, 274, 278

Americas, human migration to, 176, 182–3

amniotes, 293–4

Amtrak, 17, 323

Anders, Bill, 173

Angier, Natalie, 208, 209–10

animals, 205–8, 211

emotion in, 291–3

migration of, 205–6

motion detection in, 293–4

Anne Frank tree, 156–7

Antarctica, 307

Antiquity of Man, The (Keith), 249

Antrim, Caitlyn, 306

apes, 285, 297

Apollo 8, 173, 175

Apollo space program, 173–5

Archaeology of Human Ancestry, The (Chance), 296–7

Archaeopteryx, 295

Arctic, 307

Arctic “zone of peace,” 306–7

Armstrong, Neil, 173, 241, 244

“Art-in-Response,” 324–5

“Arts and Death, The” (Bronk), 123

Ashliman, D. L., 213

Ashoka, 321

Asia, 257, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• FOREWORD
• DEEP TRAVEL
• BEYOND THE TURNSTILE
• THE SECOND LEA
• A SENSE OF TIME
• TIME PIONEERS
• LONGER "NOWS" AND LARGER "HERES"
• THE "OTHER POINTS" OF TRAVEL
• "TELL ME WHERE IT IS GONE"
• FROM LUCY TO THE MOON
• ORIGIN OF THE WANDERING APE
• THE FIRST HUMAN GIFT
• NOTES FOR "A SHORT HISTORY"
• THE LEGACY OF AWARENESS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INDEX