A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My NonexistenceDrawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of...

In "Orwell's Roses", untersucht die Autorin Rebecca Solnit das Leben des berühmten Schriftstellers George Orwell aus einer ungewöhnlichen Perspektive - seiner Liebe zur Natur und insbesondere zu Rosen. Sie argumentiert, dass diese...

"Unziemliches Verhalten: Wie ich Feministin wurde" von Rebecca Solnit ist eine Sammlung von Essays, in denen die Autorin ihre persönliche Entwicklung zur Feministin und Aktivistin beschreibt. Solnit beleuchtet verschiedene...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist 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."...

What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers,...

Rebecca Solnit's timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism. von Solnit, Rebecca

"A Field Guide To Getting Lost" von Rebecca Solnit ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit dem Konzept des Verlorengehens auseinandersetzt. Solnit untersucht das Phänomen aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln, darunter persönliche...

The Best American Essays 2019 von Solnit, Rebecca

In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment...

"Wanderlust: A History of Walking" von Rebecca Solnit ist eine umfassende Erkundung der kulturellen, politischen und sozialen Bedeutung des Gehens. Solnit untersucht die Geschichte des Gehens als grundlegende menschliche Aktivität und...

In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or...

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silentIn Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a...