A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- ISBN-10
- 0670034215
- ISBN-13
- 9780670034215
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 209
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Author
- Rebecca Solnit
Description
A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience. By the author of River of Shadows and Wanderlust. 25,000 first printing.
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