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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough; Susan Owens; Martin Clayton; Rea Alexandratos
$42.95 AUD
Category: History
From the fifteenth century onwards, as European explorers sailed forth on grand voyages of discovery, their encounters with exotic plants and animals fanned intense scientific interest. Scholars began to examine nature with fresh eyes, and pioneering artists transformed the way nature was seen and under ...Show more
Ghost: A Cultural History - Hardcover by Susan Owens
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
"Five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has even been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it." --Samuel Johnson Ghosts are woven into the very fabri ...Show more
Spirit of Place - Artists, Writers, & the British Landscape by Susan Owens
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art
English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way up to the present day. In Spirit of P ...Show more
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