Please Note The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown. are included in the No Straight Road Takes You Essays for Uneven & A Field Guide To Getting Lost 2 Books Collection Set By Rebecca
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost
No Straight Road Takes You Essays for
This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You Tahere, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away - logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through - but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to embrace slowness and imperfection, which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of change.
A Field Guide To Getting
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.
