Wanderlust
by Rebecca Solnit | 
My Heart Is an Idiot
by Davy Rothbart | 
For the Time Being
by Annie Dillard | 
The Unspeakable
by Meghan Daum | 
Seek
by Denis Johnson | 
About This Life
by Barry Lopez | 
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel
by Alexander Chee | 
My Misspent Youth
by Meghan Daum | 
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
by Samantha Irby | 
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett | 
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
by Megan Stielstra | 
Learning to Drive
by Katha Pollitt | 
The Professor and Other Writings
by Terry Castle | 
Manhood for Amateurs
by Michael Chabon | 
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit | 
Trick Mirror
by Jia Tolentino | 
River of Shadows
by Rebecca Solnit |
As Eve Said to the Serpent
by Rebecca Solnit | 
Unfathomable City
by Rebecca Solnit | 
Sexual Personae
by Camille Paglia |
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-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 the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.