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Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense

Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense

Berge, Bjørn
Moffatt, Lucy

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1836392508
ISBN13: 9781836392507
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.99
Height: 1.02 Width: 7.09 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

A celebration of our olfactory sense.

The sense of smell is often linked to the dark, the antisocial, the primitive--the very opposite of modernity and progress. Today, we live in an almost odorless world, where everything is reduced to images. Yet smell plays a vital role in how we relate to others and our surroundings, forming our experiences and our memories. Tracing a history of smell from the first ancient cities through medieval plagues and the Industrial Revolution to the present day, this book is a tribute to the sense of smell in all its beauty and disgust. Along the way, Bj rn Berge introduces us to twenty iconic scents--from blood and soil to the ocean--and invites readers to reflect on and reawaken their senses.

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