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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

English · Paperback / Softback

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Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage

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San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit is the author of fifteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include Men Explain Things To Me, The Faraway Nearby; Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster; Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. Solnit has worked with climate change, Native American land rights, antinuclear, human rights, and antiwar issues as an activist and journalist. She is a contributing editor to Harper’s and a frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com and has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.

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Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage

Product details

Authors Rebecca Solnit
Publisher Trinity University Press,U.S.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.12.2015
 
EAN 9781595347534
ISBN 978-1-59534-753-4
No. of pages 344
Dimensions 229 mm x 155 mm x 27 mm
Weight 544 g
Illustrations 15 B&W photos
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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