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Berge, Bjørn

 
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Synopsis

The sense of smell is often linked to the dark, the antisocial, the primitive – the very opposite of modernity and progress. Today we live in an almost odourless world, where everything is reduced to images. Yet smell plays a vital role in how we relate to others and our surroundings, forming our experiences and our memories. Tracing a history of smell from the first ancient cities, through medieval plagues and the Industrial Revolution to the present day, this book is a tribute to the sense of smell in all its beauty and disgust. Along the way Bjørn Berge introduces us to twenty iconic scents – from blood, soil, to the ocean – and invites readers to reflect on and reawaken their senses.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bjørn Berge is an architect and author. His books include The Ecology of Building Materials (2000) and Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840–1975 (2017).

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