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The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting
Engelsk Hardback
The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting
Engelsk Hardback

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A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the world of stamps and collecting by maverick historian and writer Robert IrwinWhy do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire - or even a kind of madness? In this mosaic of fiction, philosophy, sociology, biography and autobiography, virtuoso thinker Robert Irwin takes us on a wayward journey through the art of collecting, and his own intellectual passions. Drawing on the works of writers including Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, Iris Murdoch and Georges Perec, as well as a host of lesser-known geniuses, flaneurs, obsessives and eccentrics, Irwin explores everything from mysticism to nostalgia, classical antiquity to surrealism, dreams to death. We join Thomas De Quincey on a night mail coach, encounter the man who set out to acquire every stamp ever issued and enter the badlands of fakes and forgeries, all in the company of a uniquely brilliant mind. This is a book of wonders; of labyrinthine digressions, good humour and a delight in small things. It is a meditation on the stuff of life.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781805337744
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1805337742
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Udg. Dato:
10 apr 2025
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
138mm
Højde:
205mm
Forlag:
Pushkin Press
Oplagsdato:
10 apr 2025
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