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  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    par Dick Davis, Joseph Bennett, Guy Davenport, Alice Bloom, C. B. Cox, Charles W. Millard, Paul Moore Jr., Robert S. Clark, John P. Sisk, C. S. Giscombe, Lynda McDonnell, Madison Smartt Bell, Diana Webster, Jacqueline W. Brown, Hilary Spurling, Frederick Brown, Brooke Allen, Herbert Gold, Christian N. Desrosiers, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Martina Broner, Laurie Olin, David Mason, Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky, A. E. Stallings ...
    The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and ... En savoir plus

    $44.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • To Breathe with Birds

    A Book of Landscapes

    par Václav Cílek, Laurie Olin ...
    Traduit par Evan W. Mellander ...
    Collections series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Just as there is love at first sight between people, Václav Cílek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place. A landscape is more than a location, it is one party in a relationship—even when the spirit of a certain setting is not perceptible to those who visit. But whether we travel to experience rapture or excitement, to discover truth and beauty, or to be dazzled, we ... En savoir plus

    $50.39 CAD

  • Across the Open Field

    Essays Drawn from English Landscapes

    par Laurie Olin ...
    Collections series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. ... En savoir plus

    $72.99 CAD

  • To Breathe with Birds

    A Book of Landscapes

    Traduit par Evan W. Mellander ...
    par Václav Cílek, Laurie Olin ...
    Collections series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Just as there is love at first sight between people, Václav Cílek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place. A landscape is more than a location, it is one party in a relationship—even when the spirit of a certain setting is not perceptible to those who visit. But whether we travel to experience rapture or excitement, to discover truth and beauty, or to be dazzled, we ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Across the Open Field

    Essays Drawn from English Landscapes

    par Laurie Olin ...
    Collections series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. ... En savoir plus

    $72.99 CAD

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  • Lands of Lost Borders

    Out of Bounds on the Silk Road

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  • A Field Guide To Getting Lost

    par Rebecca Solnit ...
    Collections series Canons
    With a new afterword by the authorIn her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit’s beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now. ... En savoir plus

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  • Icons of England

    par Bill Bryson ...
    This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.First ... En savoir plus

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  • The Consolations of the Forest

    Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga

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    A journalist embarks on the adventure of a lifetime—living in a remote cabin in Siberia—in this Thoreau-esque meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude.“…wry, exuberant, and a perfect balm for anyone who dreams of running away to the middle of nowhere.”—San Francisco ChronicleNo stranger to inhospitable places, journalist Sylvain Tesson exiles himself ... En savoir plus

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  • The Tao of Travel

    Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

    par Paul Theroux ...
    This beautiful collection of travel wisdom is the perfect gift for any Theroux fan, and will equally delight seasoned travelers, young adventurers, and everyone in between.Few have traveled more than Paul Theroux, and fewer have crafted the original, perceptive, and entertaining body of work that he has. The Tao of Travel is a departure for him: it's a gift book, a gorgeously illustrated and pithy ... En savoir plus

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  • The World According to Color

    A Cultural History

    par James Fox ...
    A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, ... En savoir plus

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