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What is A Field Guide to Getting Lost about?

*A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Men Explain Things To MeWritten 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 color 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.**From Publishers WeeklyThe virtues of being open to new and transformative experiences are rhapsodized but not really illuminated in this discursive and somewhat gauzy set of linked essays. Cultural historian Solnit, an NBCC award winner for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild

Who reads A Field Guide to Getting Lost?

Author

Solnit, Rebecca

Publisher

Penguin Books US

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101118719

Category

reference

Subjects

Travel, History, Biography

Rating

4.03 / 5 (5,251 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14