To Breathe with Birds : A Book of Landscapes /

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The first book-length appearance of V#65533;clav C#65533;lek's work in English translation, To Breathe with Birds delves into the imaginative and emotional bonds we form with landscapes and how human existence--a recent development, geologically speaking--shapes and is shaped by a sense of plac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cílek, Václav, 1955- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Olin, Laurie (Autor de introducción, etc.), Livingston, Morna, 1941- (Fotógrafo), Mellander, Evan W. (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Checo
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Nature and civilization.
Landscapes.
Cultural landscapes.
Cultural geography.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
cultural landscapes.
Nature et civilisation.
Geographie culturelle.
Paysages culturels.
Paysages > Republique tcheque > Bohême > Histoire.
Paysages > Republique tcheque > Histoire.
Landscapes > Czech Republic > Bohemia > History.
Landscapes > Czech Republic > History.
Czech Republic > Bohemia.
Czech Republic.
Bohême (Republique tcheque) > Descriptions et voyages.
Bohemia (Czech Republic) > Description and travel.
Czech Republic > Description and travel.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • -- Foreword, by Laurie Olin
  • Preface: Gathering Strength and Drinking Dawn in the Landscape of Home
  • 1. Geodiversity and Changes in the Bohemian Landscape
  • 2. A Tree as a Family Member
  • 3. A Revolution of Surface: Successful as Asphalt
  • 4. Journey to Uničov or About the Gap Between the Birds
  • 5. Walking Through a Landscape
  • 6. Tranquility at the Fundaments of the World
  • 7. The Masked Moose and Other Stories
  • 8. Dreaming About Vigilance: A Nut from Nine Undersea Hazel Trees
  • 9. Journey to India: In Benares One Comes to Understand That One Was Born in Libeň
  • 10. The Breath of Bones and Places
  • 11. The Standard Central Bohemian Vision
  • 12. Places from the Other Side
  • 13. On Landscape Memory and the Stone of St. Ivan at Bytíz near Příbram
  • 14. The Man Who Used to Write in a Forsaken Landscape
  • 15. The Six-Cornered Snowflake
  • 16. Bees of the Invisible
  • Acknowledgments.

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