Name/Title
A field guide to getting lostEntry/Object ID
E169.04.S62Description
"Solnit's new book is about losing oneself in the pleasures of an experience, about wandering and being lost, about the uses of the unknown. She 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. Written as a series of autobiographical essays, her book draws on emblematic moments and relationships in her own life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from the 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. The result is a distinctive voyage of discovery." -- BOOK JACKETContext
Included in bibliography for BLUE issue of journal.Lexicon
Search Terms
art--philosophy, blue, landscapes, travel--united statesBook Details
Author
Rebecca SolnitPublisher
VikingDate Published
2005ISBN
1101118717, 9781101118719Notes
Length: 209General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Open door -- Blue of distance -- Daisy chains -- Blue of distance -- Abandon -- Blue of distance -- Two arrowheads -- Blue of distance -- One-story house.