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A Field Guide To Getting Lost
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost

Solnit, Rebecca

Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics.In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting. Beautifully written, this book combines mem...

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Canongate Books
Año de edición:
2017
ISBN:
978-1-78689-051-1
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211
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Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics.
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting. Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.

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