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  • Where Light in Darkness Lies

    The Story of the Lighthouse

    by Veronica della Dora ...
    Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, they have a strange, universal appeal that few other manmade structures possess.Engineered to draw the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Mantle of the Earth

    Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor

    by Veronica della Dora ...
    The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the “metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a point of tension.” Featuring numerous illustrations, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Mountain

    Nature and Culture

    by Veronica della Dora ...
    Series series Earth
    Majestic and awe-inspiring, mountains demand our attention. Through the centuries, they have both repulsed and attracted. They have been appreciated and despised as sites of divine and diabolic sublimity, as the dwellings of gods and demons, hermits and revolutionaries. Mountain encounters have defined ways of seeing. They have changed our sense of time. They have pushed the boundary between life ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium

    by Veronica della Dora ...
    Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage

    Journeying to the Sacred

    by Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora, Alessandro Scafi, Heather Walton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) and the Isle of Man. These are each sites of scenic beauty that boast a rich heritage associated ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life. Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from locations in eighteen different countries. As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere—in mythology, language, religion, politics, sciences, art, literature, ... Read more

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  • The World According to Color

    A Cultural History

    by 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, ... Read more

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  • The Idea of North

    by Peter Davidson ...
    Series series RB-Topographics
    North is the point we look for on a map to orient ourselves. It is also the direction taken throughout history by the adventurous, the curious, the solitary, and the foolhardy. Based in the North himself, Peter Davidson, in The Idea of North, explores the very concept of "north" through its many manifestations in painting, legend, and literature.Tracing a northbound route from rural England—whose ... Read more

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  • 113 World Landmarks To See Before You Die

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    by Herbert Howard ...
    Series Book 1 - 113 Things To See And Do Series
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  • Time in Maps

    From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

    Edited by Kären Wigen, Caroline Winterer ...
    "As wide-ranging, imaginative, and revealing as the maps they discuss, these essays . . . track how maps—interpreted broadly—convey time as well as space." —Richard White, Stanford UniversityMaps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense ... Read more

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  • Imagining the Supernatural North

    Edited by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker ...
    “Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.” Margaret Atwood, “True North” In this interdisciplinary collection, sixteen scholars from twelve countries explore the notion of the North as a realm of the supernatural. This region has long been associated with sorcerous inhabitants, mythical tribes, ... Read more

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  • Nisyros with Gyali - Blue Guide Chapter

    by Nigel McGilchrist ...
    Series series from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands
    Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps.Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece."Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times. ... Read more

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