num_pages: 253
description: Each disparate object described in this booka Caspar David Friedrich painting a species of tiger a villa in Rome a Greek love poem an island in the Pacificshares 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 An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever and that taken as a whole open mesmerizing new vistas of how to think about extinction and loss.With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses Judith Schalansky the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.
language: English
title: An Inventory of Losses
publisher: New Directions