Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place

by Joan Frank

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction

Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word hotel, and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826361374
• ISBN13: 9780826361370
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"