Meanings
- uncountableA form of nomadic wildland living, travelling with goats and milking them for food, put forward as an alternative to modern living.
Goatwalking in North America is advocated by Jim Corbett, who extols the virtues of seasonal, nomadic, pedestrian pastorality, attracting the disenchanted.
1997, Paul Shepard, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, page 3021 more example
The goatwalker is a runaway slave who knows how to live off the land. Naturally, therefore, he will feel sympathy for his fellow cimarrons—and Jim Corbett's own goatwalking has always had that dimension.
1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana
Origin
From goat + walking, introduced by James A. Corbett.
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