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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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Paris, 1893. Twenty-five-year-old Marie Sklodowska is studying science at the Sorbonne - one of the only universities in the world that has begun to admit women. A thousand miles from her native Poland, with no money and the odds stacked against any woman daring to pursue a career in such a rigorous field, Marie throws herself into her studies. She's certain that to succeed in a man's world, she will have to go it alone. Her meticulous plans get thrown slightly off-course when Marie attracts the attention of an accomplished young physicist, himself on the precipice of greatness.
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Based on a true story
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Natalie
- 03-18-17
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.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Audy Meadow Davison LMT
- 09-05-16
meditation on the 'other' side of life
So much of American culture is focused on 'doing' on 'success' on 'accomplishment' on 'finding our place', stroking our ego, 'making things happen'. All of which can be exhausting, frustrating, futile or ego deflating as much as it is motivation to make our lives better. This is a very refreshing and often passionate look at the other side. The benefits and pleasures, the meaning and value of letting go, of letting things happen, of wandering off, or getting lost. There are surprises, insights, relief and challenges in those processes also. This book offers us new ways of thinking, feeling and understanding our lives. In all our lives, I presume, there are in mine, times I see as failure, as cop out, as less than I could have, should have been. This perspective gives me a way to reframe some of those experiences for my own benefit, to see their value, to forgive myself, to breathe deeper. Besides that it is very well written and a pleasure to listen to.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Euysung
- 08-18-16
poor narration
I listen to audiobooks as I work, so it's very helpful if the narrator has some energy and inflections in the reading. For this book though, I possibly couldn't understand what the narrator was saying because of her monotonous voice. I couldn't finish the book.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Sad
- 05-03-17
Why did they let her read this?
The author's lilting, soft voice took away from her authority. I would find myself daydreaming and at the end, struggled with why she wrote the last chapter. I am returning the audiobook to purchase a hardcopy. Her thoughts are gorgeous and insightful but it is all lost here.
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- Robert M. Downey
- New York, NY
- 10-15-17
Such high hopes, dashed!
I had really high hopes for this book. I thought it was very poetic until I realized it wasn’t good enough to be poetry and lyric, but the prose wasn’t good either. I thought her voice was great until it started to grate on me and then she started fumbling with her own words and then the cuts got sloppier and sloppier. I couldn’t even finish it...
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- K. Kottaridis
- Boston, MA USA
- 08-21-17
needs a more compelling reader...
... To express in articulate Ms Solnit's compelling prose. I found myself drifting even when I was deliberately trying to pay attention. The good news is that I've bought the book and it is definitely worth reading!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 03-30-19
"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.
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- N.D
- 03-22-19
Boring sleepy narration
A friend recommended me this book. A few minutes after I started listening to it I lost interest. The narration is so boring and sleepy. I’m disappointed.
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- Jan Lochner
- 03-15-19
voice
I just could not handle what I heard as a whine in her annoying voice!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-22-19
I can’t handle the readers voice
Unfortunately this recording and the readers voice are unlistenable for me, how do I return this audiobook?
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Andrew Strangeway
- 11-26-17
Fantastic writer, not a great reader.
I wanted to like this, but found the reading very hard to follow. Solnit often pauses halfway through a sentence at an unnatural point, in a way that makes it a challenge to correctly parse. This is a flaw when each sentence is so heavy with meaning.
I was somewhat heartened to read other reviews, which similarly say the reading is difficult to follow. It’s not just me!
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Becky Livingston
- 01-03-17
Hard copy preferable
Exceptional content by Rebecca Solnit. I would recommend reading a hard copy over listening to the audiobook as I found her reading voice very repetitive, her tenor rather tragic.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Noelette
- 02-10-19
Not really my thing
It was OK, not really my kind of thing. Not a fan of the narrator/writers voice , very monotone or some such. I struggled to focus on her voice. And you need to focus. Interesting stories through out, but if your focus slips for a second you're lost. (maybe that's deliberate given the topic of the book)