No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain Most of the era's creative

Most of the era's creative minds--from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Copernicus and Galileo--came from the middle classes

Wells returns home to find his world crumbling

Ziolkowski dismantles the myth of surfing as a radiantly wholesome lifestyle immune to the darker temptations of the culture and discovers among the rubble a new way to understand and ultimately overcome addiction

or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent's behavior

find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain Most of the era's creativeIn the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three hundred year old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering