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.

Gen X XY will <3

I saw the TL in SF in the 90s, I saw cliffs of Route 1 at every stage of life, I saw cathedrals in Europe, and graves of my family, and everyone’s ancestors, like dancers at a lifelong festival, wandering gypsies. Free. Thank you Rebecca. You gave me a beautiful retreat and restored parts of my heart with the creativity of your love and Devotion. This book was a gift to my soul.

A book to get lost in

Some find the narrator's voice to soporific, I found it appropriate given the dreamlike aesthetic of the stories. In the book, the author explores the contradictions of the mundane, the humanity of the nonhuman, and the art of others. At times the author does gets lost in their own past, a fogiverable offense given how open they are with their personal life. Overall, a beautiful collection of stories, worth the time and money.

"It's not about being lost..."

Rebecca Solnit weaves concepts and sources in a way that soothes the soul. I was finally able to understand why Virginia Woolf walked into a lake with her pockets full of stones. I have ADHD and finding books like this helps me feel more confident about reading and having an emotional life.

My only complaint, soft spoken reader.

She spoke so softly it was hard to hear clearly what she was saying without turning the volume all the way up.

Poetic

Solnit’s unique prose reveals complex and nuanced views of place, highlighting the intersubjectivity of self and world. There’s no better travel companion.