A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (English) Paperback Book

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

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In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.

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Combining memoir, history and philosophy, Solnit takes us on a beautiful exploration into loss, losing and being lost, and the challenges of living with uncertainty.

Author Biography

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.

Review

Wonderful * * The Times * *Brilliant . . . Go on. Start walking. Get lost. Who knows what you'll find * * Guardian * *Rebecca Solnit is unquestionably one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation. Possessed of eloquence and erudition in equal measure, her books have a wonderful capacity to lead the reader on unexpected and intriguing journeys ... As with Solnit's previous books, there is an emotional, even a polemical dimension to these ideas. It is a rare writer who can write so excitingly with both heart and head * * Scotsman * *Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies * * Harper's Magazine * *Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written -- George MonbiotFlawless scintillating prose, writing it is impossible not to admire * * Financial Times * *The book itself is a kind of wandering, and it is hard to say where we get to, but there are good things along the way. * * Sunday Times * *Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other times, impassioned and serious -- Alain de Botton

Long Description

Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.

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

Details ISBN1786890518 Author Rebecca Solnit Pages 224 Series Canons Year 2017 ISBN-10 1786890518 ISBN-13 9781786890511 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Canongate Canons Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9781841957456 DEWEY 306.4 Publication Date 2017-06-15 Language English Edition 2nd UK Release Date 2017-06-15 AU Release Date 2017-06-15 Illustrations No Publisher Canongate Books Edition Description Main - Canons edition Audience General NZ Release Date 2017-07-25 We've got this

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