With a new afterword by the author In her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit''s beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.

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Rebecca Solnit has written more than twenty acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Hope in the Dark, Wanderlust, The Faraway Nearby, and Men Explain Things to Me. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.

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Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics - now with a new afterword by the author