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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

by Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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ISBN10: 0143037242
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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 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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"A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost." The New Yorker

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

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"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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Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award.

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This book took me by surprise. I loved the title and have read a couple of other books by Ms. Solnitt. I'm a fan. I loved it because it was so personal, yet written in a very artful way...almost poetry. Unexpected juxtapositions happen, which are both surreal and real at the same time, which I loved. Expect the unexpected with Solnit. She is an artist.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780143037248
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
06/27/2006
Publisher:
PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE
Pages:
209
Height:
.62IN
Width:
5.16IN
Thickness:
.75
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2005
UPC Code:
2800143037240
Author:
Rebecca Solnit
Media Run Time:
B
Subject:
Travel Writing-General
Subject:
Landscape -- United States.
Subject:
United States Description and travel.
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Arts

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