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Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781841957456
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Canongate Books Ltd
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost is an investigation into loss, losing and being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. This book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding new light on the way we live now.
'Never to get lost is not to live.' "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. Starting from the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to discover, this book explores how finding that unknown quantity frequently requires getting lost to begin with. Exquisitely written, this book manages to be both a heartfelt memoir, and a highly accomplished cultural study, with the bird's eye perspective of one of the world's most perceptive critics. Taking in subjects as eclectic as mapmaking and memory, Hitchcock and Renaissance painting, this book confronts the challenge of living with uncertainty.
| ISBN | 1841957453 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781841957456
(What's this?) | | Pages | 224 | | Publisher | Canongate Books Ltd | | Published in | Edinburgh | | Imprint | Canongate Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 184 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 133 | | Publication date | 06 Apr 2006 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 306.4 | |
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"'Flawless scintillating prose, writing it is impossible not to admire' Financial Times "Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other times, impassioned and serious." Allain de Botton (on Wanderlust) "Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written." George Monbiot (on Hope in the Dark)"  Be the first to write a customer review
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