The Miniaturists

by Barbara Browning

Book Overview

In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018917
• ISBN13: 9781478018919
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.0"