Book Review: A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

This book came at a perfect time. I was going through my ankle surgery and having my cast on. I was stuck inside my home, going crazy. Before breaking my ankle, I had been out almost every day climbing or hiking, and suddenly it all stopped, and four walls were pilling on me. So I needed to get lost in something. And here was a book with a field guide to just that, loaned by a friend to help me through the recovery.

The first chapters mesmerized me. I got lost in what it is to experience the ...