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Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did it Go?
Michael Bywater
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Description for Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did it Go?
Hardcover. good copy ... with neat newsclippings relating to the author.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862077010
SKU
KEX0303242
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Michael Bywater
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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