<p><strong>“Mr. Brunner’s winning book is a reassuring, nostalgic reminder that winter is the season of both play and regeneration.”—<em>Wall Street Journal</em></strong></p><p>In <em>Winterlust</em>, a farmer painstakingly photographs five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode. Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon, cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats traverse glacial lakes.</p><p>This lovingly illustrated meditation on winter entwines the spectacular with the everyday, expertly capturing the essence of a beloved yet dangerous season, which is all the more precious in an era of climate change</p><p>“Brunner masterfully does in words what resilient and adventurous people have done in their lives for centuries; he finds beauty in blizzards and ice and the cryst
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People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man's-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life. <br/> <br/>Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters...
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Få svenska kungar har avporträtterats i ord och bild i så hög grad som Karl XII. Man har spekulerat kring, tolkat och omvärderat krigarkonungen. Ändå förblir han en gåta. Vilka var hans drivkrafter? Hur såg han på sin roll? Varför gifte han...
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Bildhuggare Tobias Sergel (1740 1814) spåddes tidigt en lysande karriär. Under sin studietid i Rom beundrades hans arbeten som det högsta tiden frambragt. Han sades överträffa Michelangelo. Men när Gustav III tillträder tronen är tiden som fritt...
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