{"product_id":"a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-isbn-9780143037248","title":"A Field Guide to Getting Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003e“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOrwell's Roses\u003c\/i\u003e, a\u003c\/b\u003e stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWritten as a series of autobiographical essays, \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Solnit has been compared to both Annie Dillard and Susan Sontag . . . her own work resembles a richly conceived character, capable of sudden turns and sharp twists, changing direction from book to book and page to page in ways that, in retrospect, are nevertheless consistent with what she's done before. [\u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e] has something close to perfect pitch, an intermezzo in an increasingly impressive career.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An altogether sublime collection. . . she sees in the act of embracing the unknown a gateway to self-transcendence.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Maria Popova, Brainpickings.org\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—San Fransisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost is . . . a series of peregrinations, leading the reader to unexpected vistas.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ode to losing yourself and finding out what's on the other side of familiarity. For Ms. Solnit . . . getting lost is more than a matter of merely physical circumstances. 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003eWriter, historian, and activist \u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seventeen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including three atlases, of San Francisco in 2010, New Orleans in 2013, and New York in 2016;\u003ci\u003e Men Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West \u003c\/i\u003e(for which she received a Guggenheim, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). She is a columnist at \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in San Francisco.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303644516581,"sku":"NP9780143037248","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143037248.jpg?v=1767720459","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-isbn-9780143037248","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}