A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit ebook
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN: 9780143037248
Format: pdf
Page: 224

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. I can't remember actually deciding to read this. I began reading this book while I was lost. In her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost, author Rebecca Solnit discusses these very questions. €A Field Guide to Getting Lost” by Rebecca Solnit. September 15, 2010 in Beyond the Year of Reading. Her brilliant new book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, is about 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. The question then is how to get lost. Jerinic said she recommended “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” when HON 105 overseers were searching for a book for every first-year Honors student to read. It's an excerpt from author Rebecca Solnit's 2005 novel, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, — and the recurring message can be interpreted as an homage to Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter's instantly famous moniker. On the surface, it would seem that getting lost requires little instruction, and that few of us would want to improve whatever talent for it we might possess. Colombian artist Andrea Acosta tried to get lost in the city of Worpswede, Germany while planning an installation project. She's also the author of such modern-day classics as A Field Guide to Getting Lost, A Paradise Built in Hell and Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. It was on my bedside cabinet, I picked it up and started reading. Adrienne sent me an email yesterday about a book she's reading by Rebecca Solnit called A Field Guide to Getting Lost, and I thought it was the loveliest passage.