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Zusatztext “Truly exceptional! a paradise for readers.”— Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost , the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell . A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times . She lives in San Francisco. Klappentext In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland’s history, literature and landscape. Zusammenfassung Portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion! colonization! emigration! nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West! this title carves a route through Ireland's history! literature and landscape.
About the author
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award).
A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper’s.
