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Housing the Environmental Imagination

Politics, Beauty, and Refuge in American Nature Writing

By: Peter Quigley

£39.99

For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?

Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty

Critical Sources and Issues for a Lost Conversation

By: Peter Quigley

£75.99

A corrosive energy gnaws at Western culture. This book looks to 2500 years of history, showing the power of beauty to shape and enrich our civilization. It asks if today’s crises are rooted in the repression of beauty, and dares to suggest that “Beauty can save the world.”