The Marvels of the World – An Anthology of Nature Writing Before 1700 Bushnell

The Marvels of the World\nby Rebecca Bushnell\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Rebecca Bushnell\nTitle: The Marvels of the World\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9780812224733\nISBN-10: 0812224736\nRRP: \u00A339.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLong 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 nature a.