-
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Prime members: New to Audible?Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Buy for $14.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 318
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 319
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Walking as politics
- By Jason V on 06-04-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
The Faraway Nearby
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
In this exquisitely written new audiobook by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories - of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness - Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great Book - Author shouldn't read it
- By S. Earle on 02-29-16
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Orwell's Roses
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
“In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely Awful!
- By asdf on 04-06-22
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Recollections of My Nonexistence
- A Memoir
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Observant, organized, and real...
- By Jesse Rolfer on 03-25-20
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 278
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
- Essays
- By: Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit - introduction
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 72
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home place and the community around it—a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he’d long warned.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Intense and beautifully personal
- By Karen West on 06-28-23
By: Barry Lopez, and others
-
Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 318
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 319
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Walking as politics
- By Jason V on 06-04-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
The Faraway Nearby
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
In this exquisitely written new audiobook by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories - of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness - Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great Book - Author shouldn't read it
- By S. Earle on 02-29-16
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Orwell's Roses
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
“In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely Awful!
- By asdf on 04-06-22
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Recollections of My Nonexistence
- A Memoir
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Observant, organized, and real...
- By Jesse Rolfer on 03-25-20
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 278
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
- Essays
- By: Barry Lopez, Rebecca Solnit - introduction
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 72
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home place and the community around it—a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he’d long warned.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Intense and beautifully personal
- By Karen West on 06-28-23
By: Barry Lopez, and others
-
Not Too Late
- Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
- By: Rebecca Solnit - editor, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - editor
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell, Robin Miles, Kyla Garcia, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 6
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. T
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Thank you!
- By Susan C. on 04-13-23
By: Rebecca Solnit - editor, and others
-
A Book of Migrations
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 16
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland’s history, literature, and landscape.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I love Rebecca Solnit's writing
- By CB on 10-14-14
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- By: Rick Rubin
- Narrated by: Rick Rubin
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,095
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,593
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 2,578
Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Rick is Art
- By Ira Henke on 01-17-23
By: Rick Rubin
-
Inciting Joy
- Essays
- By: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 86
In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we expand it. In an era when divisive voices take up so much air space, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully told truths
- By Anonymous User on 02-16-23
By: Ross Gay
-
Motherhood
- A Novel
- By: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Sheila Heti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 198
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 171
In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with candor, originality, and humor. In her late 30s, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent audiobook considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forebearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Way beyond what I expected
- By S. Anderson on 01-03-19
By: Sheila Heti
-
White Teeth
- A Novel
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ray Panthaki, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 720
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 624
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 617
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
4.68 stars....a modern classic
- By ibillinsly@gmail on 06-06-18
By: Zadie Smith
-
The Midnight Library
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62,350
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 54,784
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54,533
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Exceptional.
- By Richard B. on 10-05-20
By: Matt Haig
-
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,970
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 32,921
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32,806
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever - and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Prose style not to my liking
- By C.V. Cox on 10-18-20
By: V. E. Schwab
-
The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41,221
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37,158
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37,113
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Boy, am I in the minority on this one.
- By Bonny on 11-04-13
By: Donna Tartt
-
Reality Hunger
- A Manifesto
- By: David Shields
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores - the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real - play out constantly around us, and Reality Hungeris a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness'.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A great intellectual and creative tool for serious writers
- By Arien Reed on 08-25-20
By: David Shields
-
The Night Circus
- A Novel
- By: Erin Morgenstern
- Narrated by: Jim Dale
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29,171
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26,220
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26,217
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Dreamlike Experience to Savor
- By Suzn F on 09-18-11
By: Erin Morgenstern
-
Lincoln in the Bardo
- A Novel
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 10,216
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,324
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 9,280
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.”
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
"Where might God stand?"
- By Mel on 02-17-17
By: George Saunders
Publisher's summary
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.
More from the same
Related to this topic
-
The Hour of Land
- A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 296
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 263
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 261
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
It could have been good.
- By udzuzu on 04-14-18
-
Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- By: Teju Cole
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Book that Teaches and Shares
- By Carolyn J. on 10-08-17
By: Teju Cole
-
On Elizabeth Bishop
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In this book novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences - the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
ELIZABETH BISHOP
- By chetyarbrough.blog on 05-19-16
By: Colm Tóibín
-
Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 318
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 319
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Walking as politics
- By Jason V on 06-04-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A very important book.
- By Tyler on 12-07-19
By: Edwidge Danticat
-
Poemcrazy
- Freeing Your Life with Words
- By: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Narrated by: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Her Words, Her Voice...
- By S. Schultz on 11-21-14
-
The Hour of Land
- A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrated by: Terry Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 296
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 263
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 261
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
It could have been good.
- By udzuzu on 04-14-18
-
Known and Strange Things
- Essays
- By: Teju Cole
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. Minute after minute, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Book that Teaches and Shares
- By Carolyn J. on 10-08-17
By: Teju Cole
-
On Elizabeth Bishop
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In this book novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences - the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
ELIZABETH BISHOP
- By chetyarbrough.blog on 05-19-16
By: Colm Tóibín
-
Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 318
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 319
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Walking as politics
- By Jason V on 06-04-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A very important book.
- By Tyler on 12-07-19
By: Edwidge Danticat
-
Poemcrazy
- Freeing Your Life with Words
- By: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Narrated by: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Her Words, Her Voice...
- By S. Schultz on 11-21-14
-
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
- The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 461
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 404
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 406
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
STUPENDOUS!
- By Curious Artist Librarian on 10-29-12
By: Timothy Egan
-
The Art of Travel
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 177
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 155
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 155
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
- By J. Natael on 08-07-13
By: Alain de Botton
-
Istanbul
- Memories and the City
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 209
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 174
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 178
A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Terrible pronunciation
- By K. Jaynes on 02-25-18
By: Orhan Pamuk
-
Walking
- One Step at a Time
- By: Erling Kagge, Becky L. Crook - translator
- Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
A lyrical account of an activity that is essential for our sanity, equilibrium, and well-being, from the author of Silence.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A delightful and essential book
- By Yogans on 05-02-19
By: Erling Kagge, and others
-
Desert Notebooks
- A Road Map for the End of Time
- By: Ben Ehrenreich
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present - perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush - that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Not about the desert, Not about Joshua Tree
- By Steve on 07-12-20
By: Ben Ehrenreich
-
The Three Marriages
- Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
- By: David Whyte
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 403
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 280
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 275
According to Whyte, we humans are involved not just with one marriage with a significant other. We also have made secret vows to our work and unspoken vows to an inner, constantly developing self. Whyte's thesis is that to separate these marriages in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself; that in each of these marriages, will, effort, and hard work are overused, overrated, and in many ways self-defeating.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
RARE SELF-HELP BOOK THAT ACTUALLY HELPS
- By Elizabeth on 03-05-09
By: David Whyte
-
Travels with Herodotus
- By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 42
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
From renowned journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
The father of journalism
- By James R. Modrall on 06-22-18
-
Artful
- By: Ali Smith
- Narrated by: Ali Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
In 2012, Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Those lectures, presented here, took the shape of discursive stories that refused to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form. Thus, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds between storytelling and a meditation on art that encompasses love, grief, memory, and revitalization.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
#Reality/Loss/Mythology
- By Ellen K. on 11-14-18
By: Ali Smith
-
Speak
- A Novel
- By: Louisa Hall
- Narrated by: Suzan Crowley, Christopher Ashman, Adrienne Rusk, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 84
In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th century to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human and what it means to be less than fully alive.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Like nothing else
- By Anonymous User on 06-22-17
By: Louisa Hall
-
Ted Hughes
- The Unauthorized Life
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Phenomenal thanks to narrator!
- By equinox14 on 06-26-16
By: Jonathan Bate
-
So Much Longing in So Little Space
- The Art of Edvard Munch
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Good start
- By Barbara O on 11-08-23
-
Why Homer Matters
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 107
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 95
Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek - and our - consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Fascinating
- By Jean on 05-04-15
By: Adam Nicolson
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
The Faraway Nearby
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
In this exquisitely written new audiobook by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories - of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness - Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great Book - Author shouldn't read it
- By S. Earle on 02-29-16
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 318
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 319
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Walking as politics
- By Jason V on 06-04-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 278
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Recollections of My Nonexistence
- A Memoir
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Observant, organized, and real...
- By Jesse Rolfer on 03-25-20
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Hope in the Dark
- Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 195
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 174
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide knowledge of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Hope indeed!
- By Carolinebp on 04-21-17
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Men Explain Things to Me
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,092
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,815
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,794
In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great read - horrible performance
- By Denise Johnson on 03-26-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
The Faraway Nearby
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 182
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
In this exquisitely written new audiobook by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories - of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness - Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Great Book - Author shouldn't read it
- By S. Earle on 02-29-16
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Wanderlust
- A History of Walking
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 318
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 319
Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Walking as politics
- By Jason V on 06-04-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 278
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 277
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become - one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Recollections of My Nonexistence
- A Memoir
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 173
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was 19, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Observant, organized, and real...
- By Jesse Rolfer on 03-25-20
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Hope in the Dark
- Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 195
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 174
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide knowledge of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Hope indeed!
- By Carolinebp on 04-21-17
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Men Explain Things to Me
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,092
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,815
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 1,794
In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Great read - horrible performance
- By Denise Johnson on 03-26-15
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Orwell's Roses
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
“In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Absolutely Awful!
- By asdf on 04-06-22
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Not Too Late
- Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
- By: Rebecca Solnit - editor, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - editor
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell, Robin Miles, Kyla Garcia, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 6
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. T
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Thank you!
- By Susan C. on 04-13-23
By: Rebecca Solnit - editor, and others
-
A Book of Migrations
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 16
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland’s history, literature, and landscape.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I love Rebecca Solnit's writing
- By CB on 10-14-14
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Call Them by Their True Names
- American Crises (and Essays)
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "[W]ith so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later."
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Worst read of the year
- By Carl Tippets on 10-06-18
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
Whose Story Is This?
- Old Conflicts, New Chapters
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men (and particularly, white men) are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This?, Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging, why it matters, and what the obstacles are.
By: Rebecca Solnit
-
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- By: Joy McCullough
- Narrated by: Tara Sands
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Sutton is having robot problems. Her mini-bot is supposed to be able to get through a maze in under a minute, but she must have gotten something wrong in the coding. This is frustrating for a science-minded girl like Sutton - almost as frustrating as the fact that her mother probably won't be home in time for Sutton's 10th birthday. Luis spends his days writing thrilling stories about brave kids, but there's only so much inspiration you can find when you're stuck inside all day.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Family friendly
- By Jessica peterson on 02-13-24
By: Joy McCullough
-
The Year 1000
- When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
- By: Valerie Hansen
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 570
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 476
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 471
People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blond-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chichén Itzá, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire?
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Long on Speculation, Short on Evidence
- By Phyllis on 10-10-20
By: Valerie Hansen
-
The Culture of Terrorism
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 139
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us resistance is possible.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Chomsky's prescient history of Reagan's terror
- By Michael Friedman on 02-03-16
By: Noam Chomsky
-
The Iceberg
- By: Marion Coutts
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Story3.5 out of 5 stars 14
Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts' astonishing memoir; an "adventure of being and dying" and a compelling, poetic meditation on family, love, and language.
By: Marion Coutts
-
On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- By: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 54
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 53
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Just great
- By Kristi Strong on 12-14-21
By: Maggie Nelson
-
Party of One
- The Loners' Manifesto
- By: Anneli Rufus
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
An essential defense of the people the world loves to revile - the loners - yet without whom it would be lost. The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, all - along with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore, and nearly everywhere one looks, loners are tagged as losers and psychopaths, perverts and pity cases, ogres and mad bombers, elitists and wicked witches.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Terrible book, but the narrator is pretty good.
- By MYCatSimba on 03-14-20
By: Anneli Rufus
-
The Point of Vanishing
- A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude
- By: Howard Axelrod
- Narrated by: Howard Axelrod
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 12
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 12
On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
DNF
- By G on 07-23-21
By: Howard Axelrod
What listeners say about A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Kahlo
- 10-10-18
Has a few GREAT parts
....but overall- a bit anemic. Self indulgent. A particular kind of reader might enjoy it more than I did.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Jeffrey Murray
- 03-31-23
Good stories, terrible narrator
The stories and the philosophizing are fun and worth reading. But read don’t listen her narratation is numbing.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Natalie
- 03-18-17
Made me sleepy
I love Rebecca Solnit's writing, and I especially love when the audio book is narrated by the author them self. The only critic I have is Solnit's voice is so soft my mind would drift from the story and wander, making me a bit sleepy.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
8 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Katherine Goodman
- 06-14-22
Thoughtful wanderings
Solnit’s essays are full of inquisitive exploration of history and wandering and wondering. Enjoyed but Solnit’s reading is so quiet and breathy, it can be difficult to hear clearly.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 09-29-21
Hire a reader please.
One of the hardest monotone readings ever. Handful of beautiful prose but likes ranting.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Stephanie Hurt
- 05-03-20
My only complaint, soft spoken reader.
She spoke so softly it was hard to hear clearly what she was saying without turning the volume all the way up.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- HikerGatherer
- 07-23-21
Monotone
The author reads this work herself in a dreary monotone, frequently punctuated by whistly S’s, that make this recording hard to listen to, unfortunately. I find it hard to rate the story because I can’t really absorb it. I think I will pick up a paper copy instead. Such a shame. I’ve also been reading The Faraway Nearby in paperback, and I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Radha Marcum
- 03-25-24
Poetic
Solnit’s unique prose reveals complex and nuanced views of place, highlighting the intersubjectivity of self and world. There’s no better travel companion.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Sarah Bean
- 11-14-14
Beautiful and thoughtful read
Any additional comments?
This book is read by the author: Rebecca Solnit. You have the narrator listed as someone else.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Daniel
- 11-24-15
calming
The story started out strong but started to waiver towards the end. This was my first book by Mrs. Solnit. I enjoyed it overall and will probably listen to it again to fully grasp the story.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!