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Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Thelma Young Lutunatabua (Editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
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, de ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist 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." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way."--Vogue A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-f ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
From the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
River of Shadows by Rebecca Solnit
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly origina ...Show more
Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax; Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body
"Joan Halifax is a clearheaded and fearless traveler and in this book...she offers us a map of how to travel courageously and fruitfully, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings." --From the foreword by Rebecca Solnit Standing at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to s ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
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