Children are more constrained in their explorations, and at what cost to their adult selves? Getting lost has many rewards and unexpected pleasures, and is a worthy goal of itself. It’s harder, these days, to get lost, writes Solnit-and she was writing in the early 2000s, before smartphones were quite as ubiquitous as they are today. In anecdote, after fact, after pondering, after question, Solnit produces something far greater than the sum of the parts she puts together. Solnit launches the collection with an initial essay that includes a quote that has stuck in her mind: "How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is unknown to you?"Īs only an assured essayist such as she can do, she then bounces across a variety of subjects, with the common thread being the idea of getting lost at times the thread is so thin it would feel tenuous in less competent hands, but Solnit weaves it all into something fragile and wonderful. Though not directly related to travel in Southeast Asia, these essays make an ideal companion to any trip as they explore ideas of distance, dislocation and discovery.
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