Some other books that seem to follow more obviously one on another include A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Savage Dreams voyages into Native American territory to crack open the twinned stories of Yosemite National Park and nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. She, as editor Tom Engelhardt has said, “writes like an angel,” gritty, lyrical sentences that make you follow like a zombie till you realize you’re seeing and thinking in ways you haven’t before.Ī partial list of Solnit’s productions would start with Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era, a story of art-making and counterculture in the ‘50s. What you typically notice first, when you open one of her books, though, is not the revelatory subject but the seductiveness of the prose. To read one of her books is to slap your forehead and say, “How could I, and everyone else, have missed this?” Although she has written on a vast array of subjects, all her books give new ways to understand the passing world, and to glory in it. This is much like what Solnit herself does. Muybridge produced, for the first time in history, still images of a body in motion, showing what was right in front of us, daily, but that we couldn’t see without his intercession. Rebecca Solnit’s 2003 book, River of Shadows, was about the 19 th century photographer Eadward Muybridge.
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