a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit

It’s a word we associate with the agonies of death, the frustrations of deprivation, and the erosion of what was into what is not.To lose is to succumb to the fate that awaits us all–the diminutive sense of depletion and reduction. ⭐The social perception of loss is denotatively and connotatively negative. Her writing forces you go slowly enough to let your spirit catch up to you. ⭐This could be called “A Field Guide to Slowing Down.” Solnit unpacks life and the world at a walking pace. Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

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. “An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” -Los Angeles TimesFrom the award-winning author of Orwell’s Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknownWritten 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.

A field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit