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Quest for the Sublime, Finding Nature's Secret in Switzerland

Quest for the Sublime, Finding Nature's Secret in Switzerland


by Richard Bangs

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 260 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Richard Bangs revisits the Swiss Alps, following the likes of Byron, Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth in an attempt to grasp the Sublime. (SWZ66, $16.95)

 

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