"A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit

Title: "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit
Description: 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. 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. 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. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.

ISBN-10: 9780143037248
ISBN-13: 978-0143037248
Identifier: Bue_Solnit
Creator: Rebecca Solnit
Medium: novels
Date: 2006
Subject: Essays; Autobiography; Travel
Rights: © Penguin Books