No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain Recycled Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of

Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and the three volumes of his subsequent One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji show his fascination with a single motif: Mount Fuji

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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain Recycled Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views ofFrom the climate crisis and the pandemic to trends in masculinity, a stellar collection of Rebecca Solnit's most recent thinking exploring the power of activism. This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there.