A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide To Getting Lost (Canongate) is an investigation by Rebecca Solnit into ‘loss, losing and being lost’. Early in the book Solnit asks about the meaning of being lost and whether it’s a state of place or a state of mind — can we decide if we’re lost or not?

This book was donated to The Nature Library by the wonderful women from Must Use Critical Knowledge (MUCK), India and Shona, who hosted a walking workshop inspired by the works of Rebecca Solnit, Field Notes in Adrift-ness, during our time at The Project Cafe. It was the coldest, brightest November day, when a small group of us walked in silence to (for most of us) a new corner of Glasgow, looking out over the city in open green space, before walking back to The Project Cafe to huddle around a table for a very not silent discussion over lunch. As soon as we can walk together again, sit shoulder to shoulder passing books back and forth again, break bread and pour each other drinks again, we’ll be planning a sequel to that workshop.

Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian and activist. She is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster — including Hope In The Dark, Men Explain Things To Me and her most recent memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence.