A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit

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.

©2005 Rebecca Solnit (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Has a few GREAT parts

....but overall- a bit anemic. Self indulgent. A particular kind of reader might enjoy it more than I did.

Good stories, terrible narrator

The stories and the philosophizing are fun and worth reading. But read don’t listen her narratation is numbing.

Made me sleepy

I love Rebecca Solnit's writing, and I especially love when the audio book is narrated by the author them self. The only critic I have is Solnit's voice is so soft my mind would drift from the story and wander, making me a bit sleepy.

Thoughtful wanderings

Solnit’s essays are full of inquisitive exploration of history and wandering and wondering. Enjoyed but Solnit’s reading is so quiet and breathy, it can be difficult to hear clearly.

Hire a reader please.

One of the hardest monotone readings ever. Handful of beautiful prose but likes ranting.