"“Homer wouldn’t have had much to tell if Odysseus had taken the short way home.”
Getting lost is one of humanity’s earliest ways of moving around, predating all forms of maps and travel guides. In the days before maps, people were always in the situation of not knowing exactly where they were. They were, in the strict sense of the word, perennially lost. Yet that was the source of considerable insight. People who are lost often stumble upon very fundamental things. Columbus, for example, got lost and accidentally discovered America. Kathrin Passig and Aleks Scholz argue that the discovery of what was previously unknown and the attendant satisfaction of curiosity are just two of the advantages of losing one’s way. But in the age of GMPS and Google Maps, getting lost has become something of a dying art.
The authorial duo behind the Encyclopedia of Ignorance as once again set out to explore some less traveled mental pathways. The result is a brilliantly written, equally intelligent and bizarre paean to lack of orientation – an idiosyncratically aimless travel guide that’s sure to become a cult hit.
Rights to the authors' previous works have been sold to 10 countries."
