Lost Worlds by Michael Bywater
They...go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost, cities drown, things once thought immortal suddenly aren't there. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena's statue gone from the Parthenon. Whole libraries of knowledge, galleries of secrets. Gone. Lost worlds. Little things, too. Five Boys chocolate. Train compartments. Snuff, galoshes, smog. Your mother's perfume. Your father's tobacco The way Paris used to smell. Our culture, our knowledge and all our lives are shadows cast by what went before. We are defined, not by what we have, but by what we have lost along the way. And so, Lost Worlds: a glossary of the missing, a cabinet of absent curiosities. No mere miscellany, it weaves a web of everything we no longer have. Lost Worlds: the book that falls open at every page.
Michael Bywater is a writer and broadcaster, and writes the Lost World column for the Independent on Sunday. He has written two books, The Chronicles of Bargepole, and Godzone: Over the Outback and Into the Drink. He currently teaches at Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862077010 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862077010 |
| Title | Lost Worlds |
| Author | Michael Bywater |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2004-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 356 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Saga Award for Wit 2005 |
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