Synopsis
Speculating on the mysterious attraction of ruined heaps of stone for thousands of travelers each year, the author identifies the conscious human desire to swim "...down the hurrying river of time, whose mysterious reaches, stretching limitlessly behind, glimmer suddenly into view..." It is as good a description of our perverse affection for the crumbling relics of the past as we are apt to find. Blending classical literature, history, archaeology, and observations from her own travels, Macauley takes readers on a unique tour of the world's greatest ruins: Troy, the city of Tyre, Herod's city of Ascalon, and the "lost cities" now buried in the jungles of Central and South America. With the help of history's great observers, from Petrarch to Henry James, Macaulay speculates on life before the fall of these great cities. B&W photos & illus.
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Roloff Beny Interprets In Photographs - Pleasure Of Ruins
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Roloff Beny (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Roloff Beny interprets in photographs the " P|easure of Ruins" of Rose Macaulay. The text was selected and edited by Constance Babington Smith. Pages 9-14 feature 16 full page plates in colour, followed by 140 monochrome plates and 26 maps and plans of the historic site covered. 240p. index to plates. Decorative end papers. Neat tight copy. NOTE : This is a heavy [1.2 kg] oversized [ 26x20c3cm]. Book. Seller Inventory # 041680
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[0-7710-1162-8] [1977]. (Small 4to) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 240pp. Illustrations, index. Dust jacket has some chipping. Edited by Constance Babington Smith. Photographs of Beny, Roloff. (Travel, Antiquities, Ruins). Seller Inventory # 115939
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BENY, Roloff (illustrator). larger 8vo pp 5 240. book. Seller Inventory # 299472
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