The Village Voice reviews A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit.
We live in an increasingly standardized environment, bouncing from one branch of Starbucks to another, and it’s almost impossible to get truly lost thanks to technology. Solnit believes that our fear of not knowing where we are is partly due to our inability to read the language of nature. “There’s an art to attending to the weather, to the route you take, to the landmarks along the way. . . . And there’s another art of being at home in the unknown, so that being in its midst isn’t cause for panic or suffering.”
