Lost Worlds (ePub)
What Have We Lost, & Where Did It Go?
(Sprache: Englisch)
A "funny, erudite, and fascinating" miscellany of things lost, large and small-from cultures to candies, species to sports gear-by the acclaimed columnist (A.C. Grayling).
They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of...
They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of...
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A "funny, erudite, and fascinating" miscellany of things lost, large and small-from cultures to candies, species to sports gear-by the acclaimed columnist (A.C. Grayling).
They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena's statue gone from the Parthenon, Suetonius's Lives of the Great Whores gone the way of the Roman Empire. Whole libraries of knowledge, galleries of secrets. Gone. Little things, too. Train compartments. Snuff, galoshes, smog. Your mother's perfume.
Michael Bywater argues that we are not defined by what we have but by what we have lost along the way. In Lost Worlds, he offers a witty, eclectic, and endlessly fascinating glossary of the missing, a cabinet of absent curiosities, weaving a web of everything we no longer have.
They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena's statue gone from the Parthenon, Suetonius's Lives of the Great Whores gone the way of the Roman Empire. Whole libraries of knowledge, galleries of secrets. Gone. Little things, too. Train compartments. Snuff, galoshes, smog. Your mother's perfume.
Michael Bywater argues that we are not defined by what we have but by what we have lost along the way. In Lost Worlds, he offers a witty, eclectic, and endlessly fascinating glossary of the missing, a cabinet of absent curiosities, weaving a web of everything we no longer have.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Bywater
Michael Bywater is a writer and broadcaster and wrote for many years the 'Lost Worlds' column for the Independent on Sunday. He is the author of several books, including Lost Worlds and Big Babies, both published by Granta Books.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Bywater
- 2020, 308 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 184708754X
- ISBN-13: 9781847087546
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2020
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