Field Guide to Getting Lost

<b>An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir philosophical speculation natural lore cultural history and art criticism. --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/><b>From the award-winning author of <i>Orwell's Roses</i> a</b> stimulating exploration of wandering being lost and the uses of the unknown<i> <p/></i></b>Written as a series of autobiographical essays <i>A Field Guide to Getting Lost</i> 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 <i>Vertigo</i>. The result is a distinctive stimulating voyage of discovery.