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Book SynopsisâA minor modern classic, to my mind, uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling, dancing, unsettling sentences â Iâm delighted itâs back in print in a new editionâ Robert Macfarlane
Trade Review'Original and engaging … [a] modern classic' - Country Life (Book of the Week)
'Fierce, witty, wise, elegiac, supremely indifferent to fashion and confident in the long view, this is among the best books written about landscape' - Financial Times
'A fascinating, considered and evocative work' - The Critic
'Breath-taking ... extraordinary ... written with perfection' - Christopher Lloyd
Table of Contents1. The Problem of Time • 2. White: The Chalk Landscape • 3. Black • 4. The Need for Roots • 5. The Idea of the Garden • 6. The Grid and the Town • 7. Seeing Becomes Feeling • 8. The Sea • 9. Inlets and Estuaries • 10. God • 11. Psychology • 12. Abstraction • 13. Appetite
