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Adam Gopnik
Winter [EPUB ebook]
Five Windows on the Season

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Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to existential questions of God and our place in the world; how the race to the poles marks the human drive to imprint meaning on a blank space. Offering a kaleidoscopic take on the season, Winter is a homage to an idea of a season and a journey through the modern imagination.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781780874463 ● Publisher Quercus ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2585515 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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