The Wilder Shores of Love

5 best books like The Wilder Shores of Love (Lesley Blanch): Orientalism, The Shock of the New, Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50, Death in a Strange Country, The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

Orientalism

Author

Edward W. Said

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...

The Shock of the New

Author	Robert Hughes
ISBN	0500275823

Again today I was lost in admiration of this history-with-attitude of 20th century art. I think it’s the best single art book I’ve read. It’s stuffed full of ideas and sentences that refresh like a splash of seaspray. Viewing Paris from the Eiffel Tower in 1889 was “one of the pivots in human consciousness”....

Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50

Author	Agnès Poirier
ISBN	1627790241

An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris

In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and...

Death in a Strange Country

Author	Donna Leon
ISBN	0143034820

Early one morning Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All the clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something is discovered in the victim’s...

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities

Author

Violet Moller

In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity – Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy – through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba...