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Rebecca Solnit Writer, historian, and activist

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Date of Review:

01/26/2003

Published Work:

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Reviewer:

David Kipen

Source:

The San Francisco Chronicle

Review Excerpt:

Rebecca Solnit has the wide-foraging mind of a great essayist and the West- besotted soul of the recording secretary for your local historical society. In books such as "Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West," "Hollow City" -- her fierce requiem for a vanishing San Francisco

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