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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit · 2005

A lyrical essay collection exploring the philosophy and experience of getting lost—both physically and existentially—through personal narratives, travel, and meditations on landscape, loss, and discovery. Solnit's distinctive voice blends memoir, philosophy, and naturalist observation to examine how losing oneself can lead to transformation and understanding.

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

To be lost is not failure but the necessary condition for encountering what cannot be reached by staying found.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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self-and-identity

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
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Who you think you are becomes a factor of who you think he is — a castle in the clouds made out of the moist air exhaled by dreamers.
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In the ambition was a desire to make over the world; in the disappearances was the desire to live as though it had been made over.
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grief

'Little Delphine,' he said, 'I can't believe it.' A hundred adventures with Delphine — ending here, in disbelief.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder recognized all the kinds of war she survived and a world in which nothing was too far-fetched or terrible.
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belonging

It was no longer individuals but whole cultures brought abruptly into collision with difference, traversing the distance between the near and the far.
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