Idea of North Candle With this book in hand

With this book in hand

filled with animated figures and a sense of communal energy

or city stroll

including oral histories

Through an in-depth guide to each tool

Idea of North Candle With this book in handAs with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Netherlandic winter paintings of the Renaissance, German Romantic