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Peter Davidson

The Idea of North

272 pages, 15 halftones  6.15 x 9.25  © 2004
Series: Reaktion Books - Topographics

Paper $27.00

ISBN: 9781861892300   Published February 2004
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Introduction: True North
I. Histories
—Ideas of North from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
—Treasures and Marvels of the North
II. Imaginations of North
—Ice and Glass
—The North in the 1930s: Auden and Ravilious
—Imagined Northern Territories
—Northern Summer
—Northern Exile
—Revenants
III. Topographies
—Scandinavia
—Japan and China
—Canada
—Britain
Epilogue: Keeping the Twilight
References
Acknowledgements
Photographic Acknowledgements
Subjects



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