A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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211 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 2006 by Canongate.

ISBN:
978-1-84195-745-6
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OCLC Number:
63186721

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Rebecca Solnit investigates the nature of loss, losing and being lost. She starts with the revelation that what is totally unknown to you is usually what you most need to discover and explores how finding that unknown quantity frequently requires getting lost to begin with.

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reviewed A field guide to getting lost by Rebecca Solnit

It was nice...but not what I'd hoped.

Solnit is a great writer, but this book felt like it was forced and it just didn't do it for me. Where I should have been swept away by her prose and lush descriptions, I found myself skipping ahead because the writing felt gratuitous.

Subjects

  • Arts
  • Uncertainty
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Philosophy
  • Culture
  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Philosophie