Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award.
"Thought-provoking . . . captivating and compelling . . . there's a
hopeful, optimistic, even contagious quality to this superb
book."
--Los Angeles Times
"In her far-reaching and large-spirited new book, Solnit argues
that disasters are opportunities as well as oppressions, each one a
summons to rediscover the powerful engagement and joy of genuine
altruism, civic life, grassroots community, and meaningful
work."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Stirring . . . fascinating . . .
presents a withering critique of modern capitalist society by
examining five catastrophes . . . Her account of these events are
so stirring that her book is worth reading for its storytelling
alone. . . . [An] exciting and important contribution to our
understanding of ourselves."
--The Washington Post
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