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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & 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
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$21.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no l ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed a hundred pounds of ripening apricots, which lay on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer ten ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions - Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions by Rebecca Solnit
$30.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas by Rebecca Solnit
$49.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, i ...Show more
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking itself.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history ...Show more
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
$28.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
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, 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 ow ...Show more