The Idea Of North Peter Davidson Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science Geology And Agriculture

As With The Compass Needle So People Have Always Been Most Powerfully Attracted Northwards Everyone Carries Within Them Their Own Concept Of North \ Idea North\ Is A Study Ranging Widely In Time And Place Some Ways Which These Ideas Found Expression Peter Davidson Explores Topography Represented Images Literature Taking Netherlandic Winter Paintings Renaissance German Romantic Landscapes Scandinavian Biedermeyer Twentieth-Century Topographical Painting Printmaking He Examines Bewildering Diversity Mythologies Imaginings Including Snow Queen Sagas Ghost-Stories Moomintrolls Arctic Exploration Fictitious Snowy Kingdoms Zembla Naboland Nabokov\ S Nostalgias Baltic Midsummer Rooms Light Compasses Star-Stones Hoar-Frost Ice Glass Book Also Traces Northward Journey Describing Northern Rural England Industrial Sites Long Emptiness Borders Scotland Highlands Looks At Region Far Then Moves To Netherlands Scandinavia Explore Identifiable Northernness Last Visited Iceland Identified By W H Auden Louis Mcneice 1936 Furthest Remote Distant Northerly\ An Engaging Meditation On Solitude Absence Stillness Shows Be Goal Rather Than Destination Revelation That Somewhere Ultimate Austere Σελίδες: 272 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm