![]() ![]() The third blue essay explores the world of country and western music, full of tales of loss and longing. The second presents Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer who wandered for years in the Americas, and then several white children taken captive by Indians their stories demonstrate that a person can cease to be lost not only by returning, but also by turning into someone else. Four of Solnit’s essays have the same title, “The Blue of Distance,” but the first segues from the blue in Renaissance paintings to a turquoise blouse the author wore as a child, then to the blue of distance seen on a walk across the drought-shrunken Great Salt Lake. ![]() The book cries out for an explanatory subtitle: “field guide” shouldn’t be taken as a literal description of these eclectic memories, keen observations and provocative musings. National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Solnit ( River of Shadows: Edward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, 2003, etc.) roams through a large territory here. Largely autobiographical meditations and wanderings through landscapes external and internal. ![]()
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