Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268).
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Introduction: true North -- Histories. Ideas of North from antiquity to the twentieth century -- Treasures and marvels of the North -- Imaginations of North. Ice and glass -- The North in the 1930s: Auden and Ravilious -- Imagined northern territories -- Northern summer -- Northern exile -- Revenants -- Topographies. Scandinavia -- Japan and China -- Canada -- Britain -- Epilogue: Keeping the twilight.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"North is the point on the map by which we orient ourselves. It is also the direction taken throughout history by the adventurous, the curious, the solitary and the foolhardy. In The Idea of North Peter Davidson explores the very concept of 'north' through its various manifestations in painting, legend and literature."--Jacket.