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A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, bestselling writer Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. Traveling with her newly minted Irish passport and alive to the productive ramblings of travel, Solnit describes the layers of history, pe ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals an ...Show more
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art by Rebecca Solnit
$63.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
To Rebecca Solnit, the word "landscape" implies not only literal places but also the ground on which we invent our lives and confront our innermost troubles and desires. The organic world, to Solnit, gives rise to the social, political, and philosophical landscapes we inhabit. In these nineteen quirky, ...Show more
Cinderella Liberator: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Rebecca Solnit
$35.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: A FAIRY TALE REVOLUTION
Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...' In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-f ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Sol ...Show more