![]() ![]() A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. ![]() ![]() The Rings of Saturn-with its curious archive of photographs-records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund "The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter MendelsundĪ masterwork of W. ![]()
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