Spirit of Place (Signed Copy) author-rob-thompson an age of boundless curiosity

an age of boundless curiosity about the physical universe and the nature of the human mind

first published in 1968

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Spirit of Place (Signed Copy) author-rob-thompson an age of boundless curiosityWhen we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? British landscape painting is often said to be an invention of the eighteenth century. Yet