Field Guide to Getting Lost, A

Rebecca Solnit

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9781536636215: Field Guide to Getting Lost, A

ISBN 10: 1536636215 ISBN 13: 9781536636215

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2017

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.

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From the Back Cover:

"A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost"
—The New Yorker

"This indispensable California writer’s most personal book yet."
—San Francisco Chronicle

"An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism . . . a book to set you wandering down strangely fruitful trails of thought."
—Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of sixteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory. She is a Harper’s contributing editor.

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