· A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery. more/5. Catalogue Search for "simon)" A field guide to getting lost. A field guide to getting lost. Solnit, Rebecca. Rebecca Solnit investigates the nature of loss, losing and being lost. She starts with the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to discover and explores how finding that unknown quantity frequently. · With such acclaimed books as River of Shadows and Wanderlust, activist and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit has emerged as one of the most original and penetrating writers at work today. Her brilliant new book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost. by Rebecca Solnit (Viking; $) J. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. This meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Uncategorized. That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. Reading this book fosters a dangerous sense of restlessness. I am not a frequent traveler. There are the kids, the money, the animals-many anchors. The book cries out for an explanatory subtitle: "field guide" shouldn't be taken as a literal description of these eclectic memories, keen observations and provocative musings. Four of Solnit's essays have the same title, "The Blue of Distance," but the first segues from the blue in Renaissance paintings to a turquoise blouse the.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves. “The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Never to get lost is not to live.”. A Field Guide to Getting Lost. by Rebecca Solnit (Viking; $) J. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. This meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost. 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.
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