a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit

It's a state of mind to be embraced and explored, a gateway to discovering more about yourself in relation to the rest of the world. getting lost is more than a matter of merely physical circumstances.

Field Guide to Getting Lost Language English Publisher CANONGATE BOOKS Publication date 5 April 2006 Dimensions 12.9 x 1.9 x 18. 'An ode to losing yourself and finding out what's on the other side of familiarity. A Field Guide To Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit - Canons Book 66 7.74 (1,059) In stock. a series of peregrinations, leading the reader to unexpected vistas.' 'This meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost is. 'This indespensable California writer's most personal book yet, alive as ever to the subtle nuances of the natural world, but newly responsive to the promptings of her own heart and history.' she sees in the act of embracing the unknown a gateway to self-transcendence.'

'An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, nature lore, cultural history, and art criticism.' The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the color blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. () To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

Description 'An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.' - Los Angeles Timesįrom the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown To lose yourself: A voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away.

A field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit