A Field Guide to Getting Lost Paperback - 2006
by Rebecca Solnit
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.
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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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Readers praise a lyrical, philosophically rich collection of essays that meander through themes of lostness, loss, and the color blue. Its nonlinear structure rewards slow, reflective reading, offering striking lines and intricate connections. While many found it elegant and thought-provoking, some felt disoriented by the diffuse, wandering approach.
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- Title A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- Author Rebecca Solnit
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Publication date 2006-06-27
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143037248 / 0143037242
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Travel - General
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, Landscape - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 917.904
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