Gourd Art, MacFarlane David

Автор: Robert Macfarlane
Название: The Old Ways
ISBN: 0141030585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030586
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Following the tracks, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.

Автор: Macfarlane, Robert
Название: Landmarks
ISBN: 0241967872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967874
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. This is a guide to literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather.

Автор: Macfarlane, Robert
Название: Mountains of the Mind
ISBN: 0375714065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714061
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1839.00 р.
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Описание: Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has came to grip the Western imagination--and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.
His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.

Автор: Macfarlane, Robert
Название: Wild Places, The
ISBN: 0143113933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143113935
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we re laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth s surface.
Bill McKibben
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago s most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance. A unique travelogue that will intrigue readers of natural history and adventure, "The Wild Places" solidifies Macfarlane s reputation as a young writer to watch.

Автор: Macfarlane, Robert
Название: The Gifts of Reading
ISBN: 0241978319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241978313
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the author, the recipient), an exchange of intellectual and psychological currency, that leaves each participant enriched. Here Robert Macfarlane recounts the story of a book he was given as a young man, and how he managed eventually to return the favour, though never repay the debt.

From one of the most lyrical writers of our time comes a perfectly formed gem, a lyrical celebration of the transcendent power and humanity of the given book.

Автор: Macfarlane, Thomas
Название: Beatles abbey road medley
ISBN: 0810860198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810860193
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This book presents an analysis of the medley of songs from the Beatles` Abbey Road in order to understand and explain the emergent musical form, and to clarify the relationships between music recording and music composition, drawing conclusions about musical form and practice in the recording process of the 1970s and beyond.

Автор: MacFarlane David
Название: The Figures of Beauty
ISBN: 0062307185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062307187
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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"Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I've read all year."--Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper

A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life.

In 1968 a young man travels to Paris, where a series of unlikely events takes him to a tiny village in Italy--and to the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boy's life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which David Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole.

"A beautifully written, complex, and bittersweet story that spans continents and eras."--Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading