A field guide to getting lost

209 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 2006

ISBN:: 978-0-14-303724-8
OCLC Number:: 70325236

(1 review)

A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.

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Adam reviewed A field guide to getting lost by Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

4 stars

A contemplation of lost-ness of all kinds; indeterminacy, infinitude, distance and loss, told through art, history, philosophy, place and self. Appropriately, a book to get lost in.

Subjects

Voyages
Arts
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Description and travel
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women
Travel
Philosophy
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Art
Landscapes
Philosophie

Places

United States
West (U. S.)
États-Unis
West United States
West (U.S.)