She describes her dreams, old friends, some walks, several snippets of family history, a love affair, a play that she started writing but never finished. Solnit starts this collection of nine short, brilliant essays with a quotation that she was given by a student: "How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is unknown to you?"įrom that springboard, she covers an amazing amount of ground, zigzagging through history, politics and art, wandering from subject to subject, lurching excitably from one thing to another. She probably doesn't even own a telly, but she is fascinated by how and why people get lost and, more importantly, what happens when they are found, find themselves or decide to stay lost. If they keep reading, they'll discover that Rebecca Solnit's intentions and obsessions aren't that different from their own.
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