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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

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 fi...

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The Daily

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The Daily

Solnit's book was recalled as a personal favorite, noted for its 20thanniversary edition, and described as an introspective work about uncertainty and wandering.

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in part because A Field Guide to Getting Lost was a really big book for me.

— Episode: 'The Interview': Rebecca Solnit Says the...

Episode: 'The Interview': Rebecca Solnit Says the Left's Ne...

Solnit's book was recalled as a personal favorite, noted for its 20thanniversary edition, and described as an introspective work about uncertainty and wandering.

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in part because A Field Guide to Getting Lost was a really big book for me.

And yeah, that book, we just put out a 20th anniversary edition.

and A Field Guide to Getting Lost, which is introspective and kind of melancholy,

On Being with Krista Tippett

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On Being with Krista Tippett

This book was briefly mentioned in an anecdote about a chance encounter with a boy dying of leukemia who had read the book, leading to an invitation to Iceland. It was used to illustrate the unpredictable nature of life and the role of chance encounters.

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And I love those kinds of stories because it's also about the unpredictability of our lives and that ground for hope I talk about that we don't know what forces are at work, what's who and what is goi...

— Episode: [Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Ti...

Episode: [Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Tippett

This book was briefly mentioned in an anecdote about a chance encounter with a boy dying of leukemia who had read the book, leading to an invitation to Iceland. It was used to illustrate the unpredictable nature of life and the role of chance encounters.

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And I love those kinds of stories because it's also about the unpredictability of our lives and that ground for hope I talk about that we don't know what forces are at work, what's who and what is going to appear, what thing we may not have even noticed or may have discounted that will become a tremendous force in our lives.

from far away nearby where I trace the boy dying of leukemia who bought a copy of my book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, who gave it to give to his dear friend, who gave it to her mother who invited me to Iceland at an opportune moment when getting the hell out of where I was was just what I wanted and needed to do.

The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic

This book was mentioned briefly while discussing another author's book, which explores themes of inheritance and family.

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there's a center code I love he says we don't choose our parents but we choose whose children we would like to be right

— Episode: Wright Thompson On The Costs Of Greatnes...

Episode: Wright Thompson On The Costs Of Greatness Througho...

This book was mentioned briefly while discussing another author's book, which explores themes of inheritance and family.

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there's a center code I love he says we don't choose our parents but we choose whose children we would like to be right

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