Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city. One of our most impassioned and acclaimed chroniclers of American urbanism, Rebecca Solnit explores the impact of skyrocketing rents, architectural homogenization, and the links between artists and gentrification. Wealth, she argues, is just as...
"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry<br><br>In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.<br><br>In this foundational...
"A brilliant meditation on travel."— The New York Times 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...
Geschichten des Verschwindens, des SichVerlierens, des VerlorenGehens und des Sich- Wiederfindens. Trost und Anleitung zu einem freieren Leben. Rebecca Solnit erzählt die Geschichte des spanischen Konquisitadors Cabeza de Vaca, der sich auf dem amerikanischen Kontinent verliert, um als anderer Mensch und in neuer Haut zu sich selbst zu finden; sie schreibt über das Leben ihrer Urgroßmutter, die erst zwischen dem Russischen, Polnischen und Jiddischen und dann auf ihrem Weg von Osteuropa an die...
"Totes i cadascuna de les frases són exquisides." – Vulture Rebecca Solnit mira enrere i rememora els seus anys de lluita i compromís. Recorda la seva joventut en un barri marginal de San Francisco, quan la violència de gènere era habitual, i els seus anys de formació com a escriptora i feminista, en una societat que excloïa la veu de les dones en la vida cultural. I explora quines forces i quins camins la van ajudar a alliberar-se: la guia constant dels llibres; la comunitat gai, que...
