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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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A Field Guide to Getting Lost is a provocative investigation into the nature of loss, losing and being lost. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Artist / Author Rebecca Solnit
Publisher Canongate
ISBN 9781841957456
Reference P2512
Date 2006
Type Publication

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