A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit
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Author: Rebecca SolnitEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2005-07-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Book Reviews of A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Book Review: Solnit is insightful
Summary: 5 Stars
Rebecca Solnit has created what is in my mind what we all seek. Peace. In the notion of accepting that we are all "Lost", and that is where we are meant to be she has captured what the human condition is. Her prose is exceptional and thick. Her attachment to the natural world is a beacon of light in a society that is truly hopelessly lost. Lost from what is real. Brilliant work
Ken Wylie
Calgary Canada
Summary of A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-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 the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery. BACKCOVER: ?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
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