About this Book

"In the summer of 2008 ... the Museum of Natural and Cultural History (MNCH) opened a special exhibition called Walk a Mile in These Shoes: The Stories They Tell ... with the goals of highlighting the MNCH's collections of hundreds of shoes from the Pacific Northwest and around the world, to educate and entertain the public about the diversity and deep history of shoes, and to inspire people to think about what the incredible variety of shoes created by humans through the millennia can tell us about ourselves, our cultures, human ingenuity and art, and human nature itself ... Brian Lanker ... wanted to photograph the shoes in our exhibits and collections, creating a book that would document the exhibition, highlight an important part of the museum's collections, and help promote its mission to preserve, study, and interpret the history of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and the world"--Page xv-xvii.