An intimate and revealing profile of Bill Noble's outstanding New England garden—and the regional history and traditions that shaped it.
From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death.
This book's unique arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates.
A Search for the Spirit of Place Philip Marsden ... Jan Morris, Literary Review “Marsden's writing is just so good. Short, pacey chapters and an intimate and aphoristic style complement his powerful evocation of different terrains.
This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers’s belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.
Stories are embedded in the world around us; in metal, in brick, in concrete, and in wood. In the very earth beneath our feet. Our history surrounds us and the tales we tell, true or otherwise, are always rooted in what has gone before.
Maintaining the Spirit of Place: A Process for the Preservation of Town Character
Attempts to develop a theory of understanding architecture in concrete, existential terms, following the guidelines of Heidegger
Environment and Planning: Society & space. D
Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an ancient one, found in nearly every human mythology.
... was a map of his work and interests: 'I find [time] now still more scarce than ever for what with Livy, and Lucian, Homer, French, Drawing, Arithmetic, globe work [geography], & mineralogical dictionary, I positively am all flurry, ...