Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World
Book Details
Author(s)
John R. Gillis
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230620868
ISBN-13
9780230620865
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Sales Rank
#1,229,483
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
This multifaceted survey shows how and why islands have occupied such a central place in the western imagination, and how they came to be master symbols and inexhaustible metaphors for so many different things.
