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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit lives in San Francisco. Her books include Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power and A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

From the London Review dated 9 October 2003

Diary

“The few dozen houses had been burned to the ground and tanks used for aerial target practice were scattered between them. As we looked at the ruins of one ranch house, a noise erupted behind us so powerful it seemed more physical than sound. I turned just in time to see a supersonic jet disappear again, after buzzing us from 200 feet. . . The wars fought in the Middle East have been fought here first, in ways that one might imagine made them more real but instead make them more removed.” [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007)
  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005)
  • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (2004)
  • As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art (2003)
  • Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge (2003)
  • Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
  • Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg (2000)
  • A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland (1997)
  • Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West (1994)
  • Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (1990)

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