Phil Smith wrote it. He is the author. He caused it to grow (auctor, auction, augment, authority). This is what he has to say in his defence:
"I wrote this book. It takes the form of a documentary-fictional collection of the internal documents, diary fragments, letters, e-mails, narratives, notebooks and handbooks of a loose coalition of artists, performers, ‘alternative’ walkers and pedestrian geographers. All luxuriously illustrated and designed in full colour by Tony Weaver – who designed the Wrights & Sites’ Mis-Guide books.
Some readers may recognise themselves or others, though that does not mean that they are the models. They may find themselves, their practices or their ideas name-checked by the fictions. But more importantly – many of the philosophies, events, collaborations, communications and controversies that have helped to shape a new walking culture since the collapse of the 1990s Psychogeographical Associations are here given a ghostly run out.
The reach is wide and deep, occasionally idiosyncratic. The fragmentary and slippery format recognises the disparate, loosely interwoven and rapidly evolving uses of walking today: as art, as exploration, as urban resistance, as activism, as an ambulatory practice of geography, as meditation, as performance, as dissident mapping, as subversion of and rejoicing in the everyday.
Mythogeography is a celebration of that interweaving, its contradictions and complementarities, and a handbook for those who want to be part of it. Also in the weave is the trace of a whodunit (who is responsible for the dead pirates?) and an account of an/my (sometimes!) exemplary journey in search of oak trees. I hope that you enjoy the gossip, story, technical advice, theory and factoid that make up this wander through the world of contemporary wanderers.” [Enough. He goes on like Malcolm Muggeridge. ed.]
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