A Field Guide To Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit,
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1841957453
Edition: Paperback; 2006-04-06
Summary:
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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