July Book Club | Nottingham Humanists

This month's book is: "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit

We will meet in Room Bee 3 on the first floor of the Beeston Library to discuss the book. Please come along even if you haven't read it; it's an opportunity to discuss humanist issues and ideas, and to meet other people interested in humanism.

Description:

“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles Times

From the award-winning author of Orwell’s Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown.

Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit’s life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up to larger stories, from captivity narratives of early Americans to the use of the colour blue in Renaissance painting, not to mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains, deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive, stimulating voyage of discovery.

This event is free, but we welcome any donations, which help with our running costs