The Left Bank

A history of walking.

Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place.

Dispatches from the Fife Psychogeographical Collective, 2010 – 2014

Invisible Cities explores the relationships between memory, place, and desire. It examines how these relationships are transformed by travel (real or imagined) and the passing of time.

Artists as Cartographers. An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS.

From the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background to its political application in the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists.

Although much insight can be gained from maps, archive records, and local knowledge, there is no substitute for investigating what is actually still visible on the land.

Walking, Play, Cultural Memory.

A history of ten women who, over the past three hundred years, have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers

Cities and Other Landscapes. The hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. The musings explore - the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture to film; how cities change over time, a portrait of post-crash Britain.

A manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other - the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble.

Contemplating the concept of purposeful walking, appling the notion of mindfulness to various types of walks ranging from a simple journey to work to a personal odyssey.

The intellectual and cultural history of walking. A simple, omnipresent activity that has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, personal memories, epic journeys, mystical revelations, and scandals.

The uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture.

Includes the chapter "Walking in the City"

Pairing vivid pen-and-ink drawings with note-like diary entries from twelve months spent walking through the Lincolnshire landscape, recording the chalk, flint and marsh topography, ruined churches and coastal towns as well as details such as starlings on a powerline, blossom-heavy blackthorn and the coming and going of the sea.

This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.