AstrayThis book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaninga force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the