Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and
political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using
the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the
transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River
of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original
writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide
to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in
Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the
uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and
poignant voyage of discovery.