Book of Ruins Best of Granta The stripped leaves also form

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Book of Ruins Best of Granta The stripped leaves also formBook of Ruins offers a survey not encyclopedic, but substantial of leading moments when the fact and idea of ruins were taken up by writers, travellers and artists: painters, film makers, landscape architects, and architects. Gathering together short texts and extracts that describe and reflect on ruins, dating from remote antiquity (Scipio shedding tears when viewing the destruction of Carthage) to present times (the ruins of a modern city, portrayed