{"product_id":"a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-paperback","title":"A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOrwell's Roses\u003c\/i\u003e, a\u003c\/b\u003e stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten as a series of autobiographical essays, \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter, 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;\u003ci\u003e Men Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West \u003c\/i\u003e(for which she received a Guggenheim, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). She is a columnist at \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762760974624,"sku":"9780143037248","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/14f3c934a8594eeadab4824d03b1d0ed.webp?v=1780225455","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}