Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics Series: Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . . 2017. Main. Paperback. . . . .

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Title: A Field Guide To Getting Lost
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1786890518
ISBN 13: 9781786890511
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

Rebecca Solnit has written more than twenty 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.

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