Book : A Field Guide To Getting Lost - Solnit, Rebecca

-Titulo Original : A Field Guide To Getting Lost

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Penguin Books

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A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Orwells RosesWritten as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnits 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. Review An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, nature lore, cultural history, and art criticism.--Los Angeles TimesAn altogether sublime collection. . . she sees in the act of embracing the unknown a gateway to self-transcendence.--Maria Popova, Brainpickings.orgThis indespensable California writers most personal book yet, alive as ever to the subtle nuances of the natural world, but newly responsive to the promptings of her own heart and history.--San Fransisco Chronicle This meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost is . . . a series of peregrinations, leading the reader to unexpected vistas.--The New YorkerAn ode to losing yourself and finding out whats on the other side of familiarity. For Ms. Solnit . . . getting lost is more than a matter of merely physical circumstances. Its a state of mind to be embraced and explored, a gateway to discovering more about yourself in relation to the rest of the world.--The Dallas Morning News From the Back Cover A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost The New Yorker This indispensable California writer s most personal book yet. San Francisco Chronicle An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism . . . a book to set you wandering down strangely fruitful trails of thought. Los Angeles Times 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 Harpers and a regular contributor to The Guardian. She lives in San Francisco.