An anthology about wandering that refuses to stay put.
A Field Companion for Wandering
A pocket-sized anthology of essays, poems, and fragments celebrating the art of getting lost and finding your way differently.
160g
Weighs the same as Headlamp + Hiking Socks
- Lightweight
- Changes the Way You See
- Nonfiction / Essays
It was designed from its very inception to be tucked into a pack and read on the move. This is a beautifully constructed pocket manual of essays, poems, and fragments (featuring voices from Ursula K. Le Guin to Jim Harrison) dedicated to the art of getting lost. Here is a book that doesn't want to teach you how to survive, but how to wander—how to let the trail change you. This could end up as much a piece of trail gear as most anything in your pack.
Field notes
Bouchard-Roberts founded Winter Texts, a small, independent press in Port Townsend, Washington, devoted to books that can evolve across successive editions. A Field Companion for Wandering extends that philosophy into its endpapers, which contain On the Question of Place, an ongoing translation project. Readers are invited to contribute translations and corrections, carrying the text into new languages and dialects. The book's interest in crossing borders is thus more than metaphorical: even its own language and physical form remain open to change. An anthology about wandering has become a small experiment in what happens when a book refuses to stay put.