Ebook: Winter: Five Windows on the Season
Author: Gopnik Adam
- Tags: Lister Anne 1791-1840, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Essays, Winter, Winter in art, Winter in literature, Winter sports, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- Series: CBC Massey Lecture
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Quercus
- City: New York
- Language: English
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Cover; Openers; Epigraph; Author's Note; One: Romantic Winter; Two: Radical Winter; Three: Recuperative Winter; {Photo Insert}; Four: Recreational Winter; Five: Remembering Winter; Bibliography; Permissions; Index; The Cbc Massey Lectures Series List; About the Publisher.;A taste for winter, a love of winter - "a mind for winter"--Is for many a part of the modern human condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik does for this storied season what he did for the City of Light in the New York Times bestseller Paris to the Moon . Here he tells the story of winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter, Recuperative Winter, Recreational Winter, and Remembering Winter. In this stunningly beautiful meditation, Gopnik touches on a kaleidoscope of subjects, from the German romantic landscape to the politics of polar exploration to the science of ice.
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