No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit #literature This practical guide will steer

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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit #literature This practical guide will steerThis book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to embrace slowness