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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By Rebecca Solnit
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost is a collection of autobiographical essays by Rebecca Solnit that delves into themes of wandering, uncertainty, and discovery. Through emblematic moments and relationships from her own life, Solnit explores how stories and places—from wilderness landscapes to urban settings—help us navigate identity, memory, and desire. The narrative interweaves personal accounts with cultural history, natural lore, and art criticism, touching on topics like early American captivity narratives, the symbolism of the colour blue in Renaissance art, and varied encounters with nature and culture.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in travel, philosophy, memoir, and cultural exploration. It will appeal to those who enjoy thoughtful reflections on place, identity, and the art of getting lost in both the physical and metaphorical senses.

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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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“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles Times

From the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown.

Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves.

While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the colour blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143037248

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Penguin USA

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 212.0mm

Weight: 193g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including three atlases, of San Francisco in 2010, New Orleans in 2013, and New York in 2016; Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). She is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to The Guardian. She lives in San Francisco.

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