![]() ![]() She focuses on Eadweard Muybridge, the 19th century inventor and photographer who shot Yosemite with a box camera, Leland Stanford's galloping horse with an early precursor to the movie camera and his own wife with a small revolver. Solnit's new book, "River of Shadows," probes the life of a genius almost as resourceful and restless as she is. ![]() Might have become if Sontag had never forsaken California for Manhattan. ![]() 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 - and her National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated "As Eve Said to the Serpent," she raises free association to a fine art, finding patterns and following ideas with a ravenous curiosity. 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. ![]()
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