Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, & Where Did It Go?

by Michael Bywater

Book Overview

A miscellany about life, loss and the human condition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862077010
• ISBN13: 9781862077010
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

An inherently fascinating, informative, thoughtful, thought-provoking , and highly recommended read!

People, civilizations, and even works of art and cities vanish, leaving human culture to be defined as much by their absence as their presence. LOST WORLDS: WHAT HAVE WE LOST, AND WHERE DID IT GO charts these missing curiosities of the past, using extensive quotes from source materials in its catalog of loss. From lost ideas and languages to icons of civilization, LOST WORLDS takes a journey through history to examine the impact of the past. An inherently fascinating, informative, thoughtful, thought-provoking , and highly recommended read! Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Of course, he's angry

This is a great book by a very angry man. The world has turned horrible as we have watched, and Bywater tells us some, only some, of the ways in which this horror has been foisted on us. Many of the essays are very funny ..... and then not so funny. He has seen the absurdity of life and has now told us about it. Anyone who is satisfied with the modern world and does not feel that much has been lost will hate this book. Anyone without a sense of humor will hate this book. Anyone incapable of feeling outrage at what "they" (and we all know who they are!) have done to us will hate this book. Anyone lacking a soul will hate this book. Anyone who thinks that the government/the corportions/the people across the street have our best interests at heart will hate this book. Anyone who thinks he will live forever will hate this book. I love it. At first and to a shallow mind the essays seem random and unfocused, but gradually the theme emerges: we've been had.