"Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific--shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W.G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, and Rebecca Solnit, [this book] is [an] ... evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken as a whole, open ... new vistas of how to think about extinction and loss"-- Provided by publisher.
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