Winter: Five Windows on the Season - Brossura

Gopnik, Adam

Brossura

ISBN 10: 088784975X ISBN 13: 9780887849756

Casa editrice: House of Anansi Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Collects the thoughts and perspectives of artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, and scientists on the season of winter, from reflections on snow and God to the future of northern culture.

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Recensione:

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011

"Winter is a soulful, studied meditation on the season that most captures our imagination ... highly recommended." — New York Review of Books

"... a stream of endlessly entertaining insights and ideas -- a treasury of people and places and art." — Globe and Mail

"... beautifully written ..." — Columbian

"...outstanding...[Adam Gopnik's] windows on winter illuminate varied aspects of the season, but, more profoundly, they also shed light on the human condition and our complex relationship with nature." —Toronto Star

Product Description:

Gopnik touches on a kaleidoscope of subjects, from the German romantic landscape to the politics of polar exploration to the science of ice. And in the end, he pays homage to what could be a lost season--and thus, a lost collective cultural history--due to the threat of global warming. 256 pp.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: House of Anansi Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 088784975X
• ISBN 13: 9780887849756
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256