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A Field Guide To Getting Lost

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ISBN: 9781786890511
AuthorSolnit, Rebecca
Pub Date15/06/2017
BindingPaperback
Pages224
CountryGBR
Dewey306.4
SeriesCanons
Publisher: Canongate Books
Quick overview Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics
€11.36

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.

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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.

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