![]() ![]() “The question then is how to get lost,” she says. ![]() But as Solnit discloses in one deeply personal passage after another, getting lost is a necessary pursuit if we wish to gain some kind of insight into ourselves and the people we’ve known. This book goes even further: while reading it, I began to reflect on how hard it is to get lost (in any sense of the word) in 2017. Solnit’s previous work, in Harper’s and elsewhere, always caused me to think freshly about something I thought I knew. ![]() While much of Solnit’s reflections take place out of doors, the book’s focus is on getting lost in the emotional sense. Prior to reading her collection of essays, I had assumed it was about getting lost in the physical sense, for the sake of exploring and enjoying the natural world. For a long time, Rebecca Solnit’s 2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost sat on my nightstand. ![]()
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