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The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700 - Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture Bushnell
The Marvels of the World: An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700 - Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
Bushnell
With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment and concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal.
384 pages, 35 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 12, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812252842 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 752 g |
| Editor | Bushnell, Rebecca |