Hope In The Dark : Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Author: Rebecca Solnit

General & world history

Published on 28 July 2016 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Canons' series.

Paperback | 176 pages
196 x 128 x 11mm | 126g

At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.