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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World

In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World

by SimonGarfield (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $14.80
Synopsis

A delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about the world at large. Simon Garfield reveals the secret histories of tiny Eiffel Towers, the truth about the flea circus, a doll's house made for a Queen, eerie tableaux of crime scenes, miniature food, model villages and railways, and more. Bringing together history, psychology, art and obsession, Garfield explores what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects, and how controlling a tiny scaled-down world can give new perspectives, restore our sense of order in uncertain times, and, in unexpected ways, let us see our world in a whole new light. In Miniature takes a big look at small things and teaches us that there is greatness in the diminutive.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 01 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1786890771
ISBN 13: 9781786890771

Media Reviews
A rare treat, convivial and smart and brimming with intrigue. Simon Garfield excavates the curiouser of small worlds where not all is as it seems - obscure and wondrous, a bit bonkers and totally fascinating, and just my cup of tea -- KEGGIE CAREW, author of Dadland
Garfield's book is thrilling, touching and very, very funny -- NINA STIBBE
Praise for Simon Garfield: Beguiling . . . Garfield is like the schoolteacher who made the time fly, a one-man Blue Peter team for intelligent adults, a great British explainer * * Observer * *
Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining . . . Simon Garfield is an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid * * Sunday Times * *
A sort of museum between hard covers . . . As good as pop history gets * * Sunday Express * *
Author Bio
Simon Garfield is the author of a number of acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award. simongarfield.com