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Beschreibung
Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize

Welcome to a large small island.

The outline of the British Isles is instantly recognisable. But jostling within that familiar profile are countless vying maps of the country. Some of these maps are founded on rock or on the natural features of the land. Far more are built on dreams on human activity effort and aspiration.

From investigations of caves and megaliths to canals and airspace Joanne Parker reveals a country with countless competing centres and ceaselessly shifting borders a land where one person's sleepy unexceptional province will always be the busy heart of another's map.

Britannia Obscura opens our eyes to the infinitely layered rich and surprising landscape of Britain.
Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize

Welcome to a large small island.

The outline of the British Isles is instantly recognisable. But jostling within that familiar profile are countless vying maps of the country. Some of these maps are founded on rock or on the natural features of the land. Far more are built on dreams on human activity effort and aspiration.

From investigations of caves and megaliths to canals and airspace Joanne Parker reveals a country with countless competing centres and ceaselessly shifting borders a land where one person's sleepy unexceptional province will always be the busy heart of another's map.

Britannia Obscura opens our eyes to the infinitely layered rich and surprising landscape of Britain.
Über den Autor
Joanne Parker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter. She has always been interested in the British countryside, in British eccentricities, and in questions of identity. She has lived in York, Edinburgh, Cumbria, Quebec, and now lives on Dartmoor (next door to a pub allegedly built around a standing stone), with a morris dancer, two daughters and a flock of black sheep.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Bildbände
Region: Europa
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781784700003
ISBN-10: 1784700002
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Parker, Joanne
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Joanne Parker
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2015
Gewicht: 0,291 kg
Artikel-ID: 131811613

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