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Informationen zum Autor Václav Cílek. Photographs by Morna Livingston. Translated by Evan W. Mellander. Foreword by Laurie Olin Klappentext Vaclav Cilek is a celebrated writer, philosopher, and earth scientist in the Czech Republic. In addition to numerous essays in popular Czech publications, he has authored two books that won the Tom Stoppard Prize, awarded to outstanding writers of Czech origin. Morna Livingston is Professor of Design, Drawing, and Vernacular Architecture at Philadelphia University. She is also an architectural photographer, author of Steps to Water: The Ancient Stepwells of India, and coauthor of La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Laurie Olin is Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Principal of Olin Partnership. He is the author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes and coauthor of La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung The first book-length appearance of Vaclav Cilek's work in English translation! To Breathe with Birds delves into the imaginative and emotional bonds we form with landscapes and how human existence-a recent development! geologically speaking-shapes and is shaped by a sense of place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, by Laurie Olin Preface: Gathering Strength and Drinking Dawn in the Landscape of Home 1. Geodiversity and Changes in the Bohemian Landscape 2. A Tree as a Family Member 3. A Revolution of Surface: Successful as Asphalt 4. Journey to Uni¿ov or About the Gap Between the Birds 5. Walking Through a Landscape 6. Tranquillity at the Fundaments of the World 7. The Masked Moose and Other Stories 8. Dreaming About Vigilance: A Nut from Nine Undersea Hazel Trees 9. Journey to India: In Benares One Comes to Understand That One Was Born in Libe¿ 10. The Breath of Bones and Places 11. The Standard Central Bohemian Vision 12. Places from the Other Side 13. On Landscape Memory and the Stone of St. Ivan at Bytíz near P¿íbram 14. The Man Who Used to Write in a Forsaken Landscape 15. The Six-Cornered Snowflake 16. Bees of the Invisible Index Acknowledgments ...
