Michael Bywater

Lost Worlds

What Have We Lost, & Where Did It Go?

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84708-754-6
EAN: 9781847087546
Produktnummer: 33768699
Verlag: Granta Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 308 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 415 KB

Über den Autor

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.