A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00PHPD2HG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Lost and Found of Our Lives Sometimes we need to lose ourselves in order to find something we never knew existed. Solnit provides fascinating stories of loss and discovery. Her narrative drifts, those expecting a tightly organized group of essays may be disappointed. But those willing to stop and reflect periodically will be rewarded with very insightful stories that could change how they see themselves and the world. For me, it was that my identity was more fluid than I realized, and not to be ashamed to acknowledge when I'm at a loss, whe. Jimmy Neenan said Into the Blue. The social perception of loss is denotatively and connotatively negative. 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. Solnit, though, disagrees. In her stunning collection of essays that make up A Field Guide to Getting Lost, for Solnit, loss is a transformative force, rather than a negative one--a powerful impetus for change t. Gregorio said Collection Good but not always coherent. My favorite book by Solnit is Wanderlust:a History of Walking. I enjoyed these essays but found myself getting lost at times. They would have benefited from some editing for focus and clarity.
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.