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As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking(...)
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As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking(...)
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The idea of north, 2nd edition
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As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Netherlandic winter paintings of the Renaissance, German Romantic landscapes, Scandinavian Biedermeyer and twentieth-century topographical painting and printmaking. He examines a bewildering diversity of mythologies and imaginings of north, including The Snow Queen; Scandinavian Sagas; ghost-stories; Moomintrolls, Arctic exploration; the fictitious snowy kingdoms of Zembla and Naboland; Nabokov's nostalgias; Baltic midsummer; rooms in winter light; compasses and star-stones; hoar-frost; ice; and glass. The book also traces a northward journey, describing northern rural England, industrial sites, and the long emptiness of the borders, Scotland and the Highlands. He looks at the region far north of Scotland, then moves to the Northern Netherlands and Scandinavia to explore their identifiable northernness.The last visited place is Iceland, identified by W. H. Auden and Louis McNeice in 1936 as 'furthest, most remote, most distant, most northerly'. An engaging meditation on solitude, absence and stillness, The Idea of North shows north to be a goal rather than a destination, a place of revelation that is always somewhere ultimate and austere.
The idea of north, 2nd edition
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As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Netherlandic winter paintings of the Renaissance, German Romantic landscapes, Scandinavian Biedermeyer and twentieth-century topographical painting and printmaking. He examines a bewildering diversity of mythologies and imaginings of north, including The Snow Queen; Scandinavian Sagas; ghost-stories; Moomintrolls, Arctic exploration; the fictitious snowy kingdoms of Zembla and Naboland; Nabokov's nostalgias; Baltic midsummer; rooms in winter light; compasses and star-stones; hoar-frost; ice; and glass. The book also traces a northward journey, describing northern rural England, industrial sites, and the long emptiness of the borders, Scotland and the Highlands. He looks at the region far north of Scotland, then moves to the Northern Netherlands and Scandinavia to explore their identifiable northernness.The last visited place is Iceland, identified by W. H. Auden and Louis McNeice in 1936 as 'furthest, most remote, most distant, most northerly'. An engaging meditation on solitude, absence and stillness, The Idea of North shows north to be a goal rather than a destination, a place of revelation that is always somewhere ultimate and austere.
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June 2016
June 2016
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Architectural Theory
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12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 46 cm
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North Vancouver : Presentation House Cultural Society, ©1986.
North Vancouver : Presentation House Cultural Society, ©1986.
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Photoperspectives 8̀6 : a national, juried, photography exhibition October 31-November 30, 1986 : Presentation House Gallery.
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12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 46 cm
Photoperspectives 8̀6 : a national, juried, photography exhibition October 31-November 30, 1986 : Presentation House Gallery.
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North Vancouver : Presentation House Cultural Society, ©1986.
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xvi, 223 pages including frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) plates, maps 24 cm
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xvi, 223 pages including frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) plates, maps 24 cm
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Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
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Housing in Scandinavia; urban and rural, by John Graham, Jr.
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xvi, 223 pages including frontispiece, illustrations (including plans) plates, maps 24 cm
Housing in Scandinavia; urban and rural, by John Graham, Jr.
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Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
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248 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 x 27 cm
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Toronto : Stoddart, 1993.
Toronto : Stoddart, 1993.
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The first summer people : the Thousand Islands 1650-1910 / Susan Weston Smith.
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248 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 x 27 cm
The first summer people : the Thousand Islands 1650-1910 / Susan Weston Smith.
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Toronto : Stoddart, 1993.
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96 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Penticton, B.C. : Skookum Publications, ©1987.
Penticton, B.C. : Skookum Publications, ©1987.
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Okanagan roots : a historical look at the south Okanagan and Similkameen / [compliled by Doug Cox ; editorial assistance by Elizabeth Pryce].
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96 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Okanagan roots : a historical look at the south Okanagan and Similkameen / [compliled by Doug Cox ; editorial assistance by Elizabeth Pryce].
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Penticton, B.C. : Skookum Publications, ©1987.
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184 pages illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps 29 cm
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[Toronto] University of Toronto Press, [1969]
[Toronto] University of Toronto Press, [1969]
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Niagara [by] Ralph Greenhill & Thomas D. Mahoney.
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184 pages illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps 29 cm
Niagara [by] Ralph Greenhill & Thomas D. Mahoney.
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[Toronto] University of Toronto Press, [1969]
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2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
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London, Eng. : B. Quaritch, 1935.
London, Eng. : B. Quaritch, 1935.
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Acadiensia nova (1598-1779) : new and unpublished documents and other data relating to Acadia (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, etc.) by the authors, Sir William Alexander, Jacques de Meulles, Gargas, Vincent de Saccardy, Marquis de la Roche, Delabat and J.F.W. des Barres / collected and edited by William Inglis Morse ; photographs by the editor.
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Acadiensia nova (1598-1779) : new and unpublished documents and other data relating to Acadia (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, etc.) by the authors, Sir William Alexander, Jacques de Meulles, Gargas, Vincent de Saccardy, Marquis de la Roche, Delabat and J.F.W. des Barres / collected and edited by William Inglis Morse ; photographs by the editor.
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London, Eng. : B. Quaritch, 1935.
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40 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 16 cm
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North Chicago : Republic Fence & Gate Co., 1909.
North Chicago : Republic Fence & Gate Co., 1909.
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Republic ornamental fence and gates.
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40 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 16 cm
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North Chicago : Republic Fence & Gate Co., 1909.
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[1], 50 leaves : all illustrations, plans ; 35 cm
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Berlin : B. Hessling, [189-?]
Berlin : B. Hessling, [189-?]
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Amerikanische architektonische Einzelheiten im sogenannten Alten Colonial-Styl in Philadelphia, Pa, und dessen Umgebung / aufgenommen und gezeichnet von Goforth und McAuley.
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Amerikanische architektonische Einzelheiten im sogenannten Alten Colonial-Styl in Philadelphia, Pa, und dessen Umgebung / aufgenommen und gezeichnet von Goforth und McAuley.
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Berlin : B. Hessling, [189-?]
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viii, 21 pages, 1 leaf frontispiece, 19 plates 26 cm
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New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1920.
New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1920.
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Old New England doorways, by Albert G. Robinson; with many illustrations from the author's unique collection of photographs of old-time New England houses and doorways.
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Old New England doorways, by Albert G. Robinson; with many illustrations from the author's unique collection of photographs of old-time New England houses and doorways.
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New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1920.
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