Marvels of the World
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind''s place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward...
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind''s place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward...