Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen 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.
Wonderful
* * The Times * *
Brilliant . . . Go on. Start walking. Get lost. Who knows what
you'll find
* * Guardian * *
Rebecca Solnit is unquestionably one of the finest non-fiction
writers of her generation. Possessed of eloquence and erudition in
equal measure, her books have a wonderful capacity to lead the
reader on unexpected and intriguing journeys ... As with Solnit's
previous books, there is an emotional, even a polemical dimension
to these ideas. It is a rare writer who can write so excitingly
with both heart and head
* * Scotsman * *
Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the
desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies
* * Harper’s Magazine * *
Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written
*George Monbiot*
Flawless scintillating prose, writing it is impossible not to
admire
* * Financial Times * *
The book itself is a kind of wandering, and it is hard to say where
we get to, but there are good things along the way.
* * Sunday Times * *
Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other
times, impassioned and serious
*Alain de Botton*
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