Written as a series of autobiographical essays, this volume draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit' s life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery. 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. 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.

The Dallas Morning News Book Description:īook Description Paperback. It's a state of mind to be embraced and explored, a gateway to discovering more about yourself in relation to the rest of the world.' getting lost is more than a matter of merely physical circumstances. 'An ode to losing yourself and finding out what's on the other side of familiarity. a series of peregrinations, leading the reader to unexpected vistas.' 'This meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost is. 'This indespensable California writer's most personal book yet, alive as ever to the subtle nuances of the natural world, but newly responsive to the promptings of her own heart and history.'

she sees in the act of embracing the unknown a gateway to self-transcendence.' 'An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, nature lore, cultural history, and art criticism.'

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