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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 191 pages, height x width x depth: 213x135x18 mm, weight: 272 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Jun-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Lives and Letters
  • ISBN-10: 1847771556
  • ISBN-13: 9781847771551
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 191 pages, height x width x depth: 213x135x18 mm, weight: 272 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Jun-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Lives and Letters
  • ISBN-10: 1847771556
  • ISBN-13: 9781847771551
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In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.

Following in the successful nature-writing style of Robert MacFarlane and Gillian Clarke, Distance and Memory is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place—a house in northern Aberdeenshire—and threaded through with an unshowy commitment to the lost and the forgotten. In these painterly essays Peter Davidson provides his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north and reflects on art, place, history, and landscape.

Recenzijas

'This is a poet's book, his mind wide open to the cultures of the world, especially of the north, specifically Aberdeenshire. The language is luscious, musical and precise, rich with quotation and the cultures of, especially, northern Europe, from minerology and industry to poetry, painting, music.' --Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales Praise for THE IDEA OF THE NORTH by Peter Davidson: 'A masterpiece... beyond being merely clever or wise: a beautiful book.' --Scottish Review of Books

Foreword ix
Robert Macfarlane
Prologue
The Green Evenings
3(5)
Secret Hills
8(19)
Spring
Orkney
27(8)
Northern Waters
35(7)
Spar Boxes, Northern England
42(17)
Summer
Summer in the North
59(11)
The Rich Boys of Bygdøy and other fragments of a summer
70(9)
A Northward Journey and a Summer Storm
79(12)
Harvest
Bringing Home a Portrait by Cosmo Alexander
91(6)
Painting Northern Scotland
97(10)
The Food of the North (with Jane Stevenson)
107(8)
The Back End of The Year
Visits in Autumn
115(10)
A Letter from Copenhagen
125(6)
The Grim Consolations of the North
131(10)
The Aesthetics of Remoteness and the North
141(16)
Winter
Winter in the North
157(14)
Epilogue The Snow over Madrid 171(6)
Acknowledgements 177
PETER DAVIDSON was born in Scotland in 1957 and is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of the topographical book The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005); a monograph on the internationalism of the seventeenth century, The Universal Baroque (MUP, 2007); and a collection of poems, The Palace of Oblivion (Carcanet, 2008).