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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

by Rebecca Solnit

Recommended by 3 notable people, including Matt Mullenweg and John Green

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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Travel, and Philosophy.

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenthcentury America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and...

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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Travel, and Philosophy.

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Sarah Lewis

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Matt Mullenweg

Recommended this book

80%
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John Green

Recommended this book

80%

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