<![CDATA[A Field Guide to Getting Lost]]>

false <![CDATA[A Field Guide to Getting Lost]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170892436m/76479.jpg 76479 5 Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery. BACKCOVER: A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost The New Yorker This indispensable California writer's most personal book yet. San Francisco Chronicle An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism . . . a book to set you wandering down strangely fruitful trails of thought. Los Angeles Times 2756721 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost total:382|5:119|4:167|3:63|2:27|1:6| 382 1512 817 101 4 4 true false Thu Jun 14 07:04:43 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 09:32:25 -0700 2007
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Remember tho...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 22:20:45 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 06 18:13:08 -0800 2008 I found many of the anecdotes and references too personal making parts seem more like an autobiography (or collection of excuses) than a cultural document on the idea of being lost. The writing is also ful...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 20:00:09 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 20:08:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 05 15:14:48 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 15:18:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 08:09:38 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 06 09:59:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:01:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 10:32:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:28:20 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 22:48:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 15:14:30 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 17:31:02 -0700 2009
Solnit takes the historian's, as well as the environmentalist's approach to an analysis of loss, or what it means to be lost. Many of the essays here are personal explorations of mystery and human uncertainty, which eventually branch out into...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Sep 19 10:53:28 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:31:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 04:57:17 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 06:48:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Mar 17 06:26:43 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 06:42:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 19 13:40:13 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 13:41:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 11:53:20 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 11:58:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 09:15:35 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 09:29:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 26 16:58:22 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 05:53:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 22 00:27:03 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 00:32:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 16:45:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 16:46:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 26 09:56:11 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 09:59:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 21:12:13 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 21:18:45 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=76479