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Bywater, Michael

 
9781862077010: Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did It Go?
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ISBN 10 : 1862077010 ISBN 13 : 9781862077010
Editeur : Granta Books, 2004

Synopsis

They...go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost, cities drown, things once thought immortal suddenly aren't there. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena's statue gone from the Parthenon. Whole libraries of knowledge, galleries of secrets. Gone. Lost worlds. Little things, too. Five Boys chocolate. Train compartments. Snuff, galoshes, smog. Your mother's perfume. Your father's tobacco The way Paris used to smell. Our culture, our knowledge and all our lives are shadows cast by what went before. We are defined, not by what we have, but by what we have lost along the way. And so, Lost Worlds: a glossary of the missing, a cabinet of absent curiosities. No mere miscellany, it weaves a web of everything we no longer have. Lost Worlds: the book that falls open at every page.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Bywater is a writer and broadcaster, and writes the Lost World column for the Independent on Sunday. He has written two books, The Chronicles of Bargepole, and Godzone: Over the Outback and Into the Drink. He currently teaches at Cambridge.

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Éditeur
Granta Books
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1862077010
ISBN 13 
9781862077010
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
356
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