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Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.

‘Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies’

—Harper’s

‘Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written’

—George Monbiot

‘Hope in the Dark is great. The powerful in this world seem to want to frighten us into following their orders unquestioningly and this book offers us the key to liberation – and that key is hope’ — Tony Benn

‘This is a book to be cherished, something to keep close at hand for those dark moments when you wonder whether the world really is a better place than it was fifty years ago’

—Independent on Sunday

‘Her passionate defence of direct action is a refreshingly corrective, while, crucially, her celebration of people power is proactive rather than complacent’

—Metro

‘A jewel of a book. Solnit reveals where we were, where we are, and the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness’

—Studs Terkel