A Field Guide to Getting Lost Atombombe Elena and Lila

Elena and Lila

to his rise to fame

clear-eyed essays on an embodied self in flight through the world

and of the link between genius and monstrosity

A Field Guide to Getting Lost Atombombe Elena and LilaWhether 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