A Field Guide To Getting Lost
- 5 Jun 2025
- 9781837264278
- £10.99
- 224 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 Aug 2009
- 9781847676603
- £8.79
- 224 pp
In a few words
Solnit’s revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics – now with a new afterword by the author
In a few words
Solnit’s revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics – now with a new afterword by the author
Wonderful
Brilliant . . . Go on. Start walking. Get lost. Who knows what you'll find
Nine short, brilliant essays - covers an amazing amount of ground. Go on. Start walking. Get lost. Who knows what you'll find.
A wonderful book,which becomes (marvellously) lost in itself . . . her writing is so lucid and sympathetic, so interested in the world around her, that she never seems lost in her herself, or self-obsessed.
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With a new afterword by the author
In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit’s beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.
More about
the book
With a new afterword by the author
In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit’s beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.
Rebecca Solnit is unquestionably one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation. Possessed of eloquence and erudition in equal measure, her books have a wonderful capacity to lead the reader on unexpected and intriguing journeys ... As with Solnit's previous books, there is an emotional, even a polemical dimension to these ideas. It is a rare writer who can write so excitingly with both heart and head
Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies
Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written
George Monbiot
Flawless scintillating prose, writing it is impossible not to admire
Rebecca Solnit is unquestionably one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation. Possessed of eloquence and erudition in equal measure, her books have a wonderful capacity to lead the reader on unexpected and intriguing journeys . . . As with Solnit's previous books, there is an emotional, even a polemical dimension to these ideas. It is a rare writer who can write so excitingly with both heart and head.
The book itself is a kind of wandering, and it is hard to say where we get to, but there are good things along the way.
