A Field Guide To Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2006 | Main - Re-issue (new cover)
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84195-745-6 (ISBN)

Infos

'Never to get lost is not to live'

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A Field Guide to Getting Lost is an investigation into loss, losing and being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.

Autor

REBECCA SOLNIT has written seven acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Motion Studies:Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge (Bloomsbury) and Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Verso). An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in San Francisco.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2006
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 154 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-84195-745-3 / 1841957453
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84195-745-6 / 9781841957456
• Zustand: Neuware