The Kingdom Of Rarities
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The Kingdom Of Rarities
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Author : Eric Dinerstein
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2013
The Kingdom Of Rarities written by Eric Dinerstein and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Nature categories.
This book explores that idea, building a narrative around the concept of rarity and its implications both for our understanding of how the natural world works, and for what it can teach us about protecting biodiversity during a time of large-scale environmental change.
A Cabinet Of Rarities
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Author : Erik Desmazieres
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2012-11-06
A Cabinet Of Rarities written by Erik Desmazieres and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
For bibliophiles, print collectors, and connoisseurs, and anyone whose imagination is fired by the macabre and the arcane: contemporary etchings recreating interiors, studios, cityscapes, landscapes, and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world The manifestation of a collector’s appetite for discovering and mastering the world—represented by singular items of natural history, geology, art, or relics—cabinets of curiosities and rarities became popular in the Renaissance and were precursors to the modern museum. Largely inspired by seventeenth-century scientist and antiquary Sir Thomas Browne, whose esoteric writings have long appealed to scholars, this rare new work is a bibliophile’s delight. Erik Desmazières’s contemporary etchings present a cabinet of rarities portraying a collection of the recondite, rare, and bizarre, complete with emblems of the vanity of earthly life and intimations of mortality. Death and decay are favorite subjects: a skull recalls depictions of Sir Thomas Browne’s own, disinterred and displayed in a local museum until the 1920s. These abstruse objects and specters of death, subject matter once considered the preserve of specialists, have entered the cultural mainstream and have found a broad popular audience.
A Collection Of Readable Reprints Of Literary Rarities Illustrative Of The History Literature Manners And Biography Of The English Nation Between The Sixteenth And Nineteenth Centuries
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Author : Charles Hindley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
A Collection Of Readable Reprints Of Literary Rarities Illustrative Of The History Literature Manners And Biography Of The English Nation Between The Sixteenth And Nineteenth Centuries written by Charles Hindley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with English literature categories.
Nature Prose
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Author : Dominic Head
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Nature Prose written by Dominic Head and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of 'nature' in contemporary imaginative prose reveals some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis, but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.
Rarities Of These Lands
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Author : Claudia Swan
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Rarities Of These Lands written by Claudia Swan and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Art categories.
A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern world The seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture. Over the course of the first half of the century, the northern Netherlands secured independence from the Spanish crown, and the nascent republic sought to establish its might in global trade, often by way of diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim powers. Central to the political and cultural identity of the Dutch Republic were curious foreign goods the Dutch called "rarities." Rarities of These Lands explores how these rarities were obtained, exchanged, stolen, valued, and collected, tracing their global trajectories and considering their role within the politics of the new state. Claudia Swan’s insightful, engaging analysis offers a novel and compelling account of how the Dutch Republic turned foreign objects into expressions of its national self-conception. Rarities of These Lands traces key elements of the formation of the Dutch Republic—artistic and colonialist ventures alike—offering new perspectives on this momentous period in the history of the Netherlands and its material culture.
Admirable Curiosities Rarities And Wonders
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Author : R. B.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1728
Admirable Curiosities Rarities And Wonders written by R. B. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1728 with categories.
Vaquita
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Author : Brooke Bessesen
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Vaquita written by Brooke Bessesen and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Nature categories.
"Intrepid conservation detective story." --Nature "A lucid, informed, and gripping account...a must-read." --Science "Passionate...a heartfelt and alarming tale." --Publishers Weekly "Gripping...a well-told and moving tale of environmentalism and conservation." --Kirkus "Compelling." --Library Journal In 2006, vaquita, a diminutive porpoise making its home in the Upper Gulf of California, inherited the dubious title of world's most endangered marine mammal. Vaquita have been in decline for decades, dying in illegal gillnets intended for a giant fish, totoaba. Author Brooke Bessesen takes us to the Upper Gulf region in search of answers to a heart-wrenching dilemma. When diplomatic efforts to save the porpoise failed, Bessesen followed a scientific team in a binational effort to capture remaining vaquita and breed them in captivity--the only hope for their survival. In this fast-paced, soul-searing tale, she learned that there are no easy answers when extinction is profitable.
Admirable Curiosities Rarities And Wonders In England Scotland Ireland
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Author : R. B.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1697
Admirable Curiosities Rarities And Wonders In England Scotland Ireland written by R. B. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1697 with Great Britain categories.
The Gardeners Chronicle
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Gardeners Chronicle written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Horticulture categories.
The Birdwatcher S Dictionary
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Author : Peter Weaver
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-11-30
The Birdwatcher S Dictionary written by Peter Weaver and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Nature categories.
The author defines more than 1100 words and terms in this illustrated dictionary for the birdwatcher. Its attraction for the relative novice is obvious but it is equally directed to experienced birdwatchers who will find succinct definitions of terms that are new to them and of others that they have understood none too well. Among the appendices is a full list of species on the British and Irish List arranged in 'Voous Order' and with categories of status in Britain and Ireland. Whatever the user's ornithological expertise, the book will expand or confirm his or her knowledge and offer at the same time an absorbing and entertaining browse, as a good dictionary should.