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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough; Susan Owens; Martin Clayton; Rea Alexandratos
44.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes, and pioneering artists transformed the way nature was seen and under ...Show more
Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens
29.99 AUD
Category: History
Now in paperback, this is a new cultural history of the ghost--one of the most popular and pervasive subjects worldwide. Spanning from the medieval period to today, the book includes a wide range of artists and writers, including Hogarth, Blake, Rossetti, Shakespeare, Pepys, Shelley, and Dickens. Contem ...Show more
Ghost: A Cultural History - Hardcover by Susan Owens
39.99 AUD
Category: History
"Five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has even been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it." --Samuel Johnson Ghosts are woven into the very fabri ...Show more
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape by Susan Owens
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are th ...Show more
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