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A Field Guide To Getting Lost

By Rebecca Solnit
Series: Canons
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With a new afterword by the author In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost

Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics

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With a new afterword by the author

In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.

A Field Guide To Getting Lost offers a profound reflection on the art of losing with grace and the beauty found in the unknown. Through her insightful narrative, Solnit invites readers to embrace uncertainty as a path to discovery.

Series: Canons

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837264278

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Canons

Edition: Main - Canons Reissue

Contributors:

  • Afterword by Rebecca Solnit

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 159g

Pages: 224

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Biography & Memoir History & Military Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Rebecca Solnit Series: Canons

About the Author

Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Hope in the Dark, Wanderlust, The Faraway Nearby, and Men Explain Things to Me. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.

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