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.

Praise for Rebecca Solnit

'Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the desertmystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies.' Harper's Magazine

'Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other times, impassioned and serious.'
Alain de Botton

'Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written.' George Monbiot

'Flawless scintillating prose, writing it is impossible not to admire.' Financial Times

Auteur

Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Hope in the Dark, Wanderlust, The Faraway Nearby, and Men Explain Things to Me. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.

Résumé
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.