No Straight Road Takes You There - Essays for Uneven Terrain

In the spirit of her bestselling book, Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty.
In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed.
Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.
Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with an essay about ice in seven long sentences, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead.
"I've tried to find other ways of seeing and to prize the migratory routes ideas take," Solnit writes in the introduction, "the way that hope is most often grounded in memory, because you can't see the future but you can understand the patterns and possibilities if you know the past."

About the author

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell's Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Solnit
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2025
• EAN: 9798888904220
• ISBN: 979-8-88890-422-0
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Political activism, Social issues & processes, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary essays, Social and ethical issues, Feminism and feminist theory, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement