Rated 3.9 by Users & Critics. A Field Guide to Getting Lost strikes the same note of longing repeatedly, but we don't get bored because Solnit dances from topic to topic. Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost has nine chapters, four of which are titled “The Blue of Distance,” a reference to that blue you see when looking across a long expanse at the far edge of land and sky, as well as the blue you see in many paintings to indicate that far place, a merging of all colors. It started off with her newest essay collection Men Explain Things To Me and was cemented by A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Jul 22, 2015 - Quote from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit.
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. She uses her license as a public intellectual to offer snippets of American history, art and film criticism, philosophy, natural history, and Greek mythology. A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Recollections of My Nonexistence 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. 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. A Field Guide To Getting Lost (Canons) Paperback – Import, 15 June 2017 by Rebecca Solnit (Author) › Visit ... An incredibly inspiring book full of quotable quotes and big ideas, one to dip into regularly rather than read end to end. ISBN 0143037242, 9780143037248. Paradise Found: PW talks with Rebecca Solnit… This one was recommended to me by a friend – I’ve had my eye on Solnit for a while. Her 2014 collection of essays Men Explain Things To Me undoubtedly influenced the popular use of the term "mansplaining," and A Field Guide to Getting Lost and numerous other writings have received ongoing acclaim and feel increasingly relevant in today's tense political climate.
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost is an interesting and unique book with a distinct personality. A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST Rebecca Solnit, Author. Check out detail reviews rating quotes community of A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. It is the title of the book which tempted me to pick it up, and the more I read, the more I was pulled in by the depth and obscurity of Solnit’s writing. Viking $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03421-5. Rebecca Solnit has become one of the most influential writers, historians, and activists of the past decade.
Rebecca Solnit has gone on my list of authors whose work I’d like to own and read all of. Read more. Brilliant. ― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Plato) 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. Helpful. ARTICLES. A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Recollections of My Nonexistence .