A universal metaphor for human life, the image of a labyrinth has excited human minds since ancient times. The book of the German explorer Hermann Kern is the most complete guide to date to all the labyrinths that have ever existed in the world.
A universal metaphor for human life, the image of a labyrinth has excited human minds since ancient times. The book of the German explorer Hermann Kern is the most complete guide to date to all the labyrinths that have ever existed in the world. From it, the reader learns about the original meaning of the labyrinth that arose in Crete in the XNUMXnd millennium BC. e., about its distribution around the world (images similar to Cretan ones can be found in Scandinavia and on the island of Java), as well as about its most unusual varieties: literary, dance, landscape gardening, and even love. Carefully selected illustrations demonstrate the variety of forms of the labyrinth and are provided with deep author’s comments.
Alphabet, 432 p.