Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature 19th century romance a chance meeting with a

a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on a pulse-pounding quest for the truth

"--New York Review of Books

strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated

a refugee working as a “fixer”—providing Western media with trustworthy information and contacts to help get the news out

Is there something these people know that we don’t

Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature 19th century romance a chance meeting with aWe all know what "the political landscape" is, and politicians and journalists never tire of referring to it. But in this ingenious and original book, Martin Warnke takes that well worn metaphor literally and uses it to reveal just how politicized the real landscape of continental Europe has been for centuries. The author finds his evidence of humanity's intervention in nature in the form of monuments and milestones, gardens, roads and border