Try to get lost : essays on travel and place /
"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 "h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2020.
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| Series: | River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
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| Summary: | "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. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place-the "vastest real estate we know," with a "stunningly short" lease"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 182 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780826361370 0826361374 |