A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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. 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.

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• Wanderlust: A History of Walking
• Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
• Men Explain Things to Me
• Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
• Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
• A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
• Lonely City
• The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions
• The Word Pretty