Vision of Nature: Traces of the Original World

By Michael Tobias

For thousands of years humans have grappled with the idea of Nature. This enduring question has left its poignant mark in a multiplicity of images, stories, works of art, and philosophical and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873384830
• ISBN13: 9780873384834
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

GORGEOUS

This is such a beautiful book it is a heavy book printed on thick paper and full of lovely illustrations. The large format book is divided into three sections: "Ascetic Ideals", "The Passions" and Mind and Nature" which approximate thematic groupings of "Religion", "Art" and "Landscape". All are lavishly illustrated. Throughout the book he includes his photos and his stories of Tibet,and the Sinai, the Gin-kaku-ji Temple in Kyoto, and villages of Delft , Vavari, of the Taktsang or Tiger's Den Monastery in Bhutan, and the dangerous T'sangpo Gorge of northern India, of the Chamonix or Yosemite, or of the island of Jubany, Antarctica He includes art, artists, authors, ecology, and winds his philosophical meanderings with lush visuals...would make a great gift