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Category Archives: Francis Parkman Jr.
Changing landscapes: Sebald, Parkman, Blackbourn
There is a passage in W.G. Sebald’s Vertigo in which the narrator regrets the loss of the beautiful view he had once enjoyed from Burg Greifenstein onto the Danube : “A dam has been built below the castle. The course … Continue reading
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