These Are Lost and Found Stories of Transformation Through Travel In an age where ads promote the notion that to find yourself you need to go somewhere alone, these true-life accounts of people finding hope through travel will certainly motivate and encourage.

Sixteen years passed between their loss and eventual retrieval by chance; fate made sure they arrived back into their owners’ possession at precisely the right moment.

1. Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz provides readers with unfettered access to two pivotal life experiences–the death of her beloved father and meeting the woman who would become her wife. Her memoir weaves seamlessly between personal narrative and essayistic analyses; intimate experiences and theoretical theories–evoking thoughts of joy, sorrow, and what lies between us all.

Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker is known for writing engaging nonfiction pieces with humanistic appeal; her article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest (“The Really Big One”) won both a National Magazine Award and Pulitzer Prize. However, Lost and Found goes a step further by being even more personal and introspective than its predecessors.

Schulz is an acclaimed memoirist known for her erudition and wit in depicting grief and loss as she explores what it means to find or lose love and meaning in this life. Her award-winning book Being Wrong won both a National Magazine Award and Best American Essays prize; she currently resides on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with her family.

Schulz expertly weaves her personal narrative together with canonical explorations from Plato, Dante and Elizabeth Bishop for an intriguing dance of confession and philosophy. Her prose keeps readers alert to every turn in Schulz’s thoughts – an unparalleled combination of confession and philosophy!

2. Lost and Found by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is one of the foremost writers who explores this theme with great depth and insight, but few authors can match her depth and insight when it comes to finding themselves lost in literature. Aside from writing, activism, history and essayist duties she also enjoys hiking and mountain climbing in her free time – as well as mothering two sons with cerebral palsy! – and mothering. Rebecca writes with poetic and profound clarity which encourages readers to reflect over and over on her words – sometimes wordy but always returning back into place each time with another paragraph!

Solnit examines how loss can be an amazing means of expanding our identities beyond the confines of our current selves. She explores all forms of loss – physical objects, identities, friendships or entire species. Taking her own experiences into account such as tracing Jewish immigrant ancestry steps or finding herself lost in a desert but also drawing on accounts from Yves Klein, Cabeza de Vaca and others’ lives for inspiration, she examines their loss with keen insight.

Her eclectic combination of thoughts and ideas forms an intricate book, inviting readers to rethink their perceptions of loss while finding their own pathways towards transformation.

3. Lost and Found by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert was an instant bestseller and movie. Although reviews were mixed, many readers appreciated Gilbert’s honesty and humor while the theme of self-discovery resonated deeply with them, inspiring many individuals to embark on journeys of personal discovery themselves.

Gilbert and Strayed use travel as therapy to overcome traumas like divorce, bankruptcy and personal struggles. Similar to pilgrimages, their journeys serve to find spiritual redemption while giving them back the power they feel they’ve lost over time.

Gilbert begins her trip in Italy, learning the value of pleasure and indulgent food choices. Next stop? An ashram in India where she will focus on inner study through meditation and devotion – helping her find peace and balance within herself and life as a whole.

Eat, Pray, Love is often dismissed for its lighthearted tone which undermines its serious themes. Gilbert’s narrative persona can often come off too chick-lit; thus making her less than effective at conveying the gravity of her search for God. Furthermore, Gilbert often exhibits signs of colonialism by condemning backward communities or admiring their “authenticity” and guidance; she attempts to rectify this by meeting Ketut Liyer who becomes her smart and charming guide in Bali.

4. Lost and Found by Kate Moss

Kate Moss was discovered at age 14 while passing through JFK Airport by Sarah Doukas of Storm Model Management. Her career took off following a series of black and white photographs taken by Corinne Day for Corinne Day’s “3rd Summer of Love” shoot, part of early 90s “grunge” trend that swept fashion magazines. From there she went on to being photographed by Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, Steven Meisel, Juergen Teller as well as Mario Testino himself before eventually becoming Calvin Klein’s face launching a period known as waify “heroin chic.”

Moss has had several high-profile relationships, most notably those with Johnny Depp (1994 – 1998) and Pete Doherty (2005-2006). Additionally, she served as godmother to Liv Tyler and close friend of Sadie Frost; also has younger half sister named Charlotte who works professionally as model under her maiden name Lottie Moss and features prominently as Rimmel London mascara campaign face (with Lucian Freud portrait of Lottie).

Moss stands apart from many of her fellow Lost characters by having an intact family life. Her father Sam remains alive and lives with them in the Cotswolds with their two children, whom she credits with keeping her under control during her wilder years – when partying became an escape route from health issues plaguing other models of her generation.