Author: W. G. Sebald
Year: 1995
Rank:
Rating:
Original Rating:
Pop Rating:
Genres/categories:
Travel, Historical fiction, Award winners, Essays
Culture: Germany
Purchase/reserch links:
ISBNs:
9780811214131
0811214133 |
| 
- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich.
Similar books:
|
