The Great Derangement vs The picturesque: Which Should You Read?

The Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh · 2016 ★★★★☆ 4.0 250 pages · ≈ 4 h 38 m · Challenging

"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of…

The picturesque Christopher Hussey · 1927 ★★★★☆ 3.8 308 pages · ≈ 5 h 42 m · Demanding

Published in 1967: When first published forty years ago, this now well-known study was regarded as something of a pioneering venture in the field of visual romanticism. Despite susbsequent works on the various aspects…