Now available in paperback, a fascinating chronicle of the obscure and elusive history of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross[...]
"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richa[...]
"Gardens of the Gods" reveals the symbolic language of garden design, exploring the gardens of China, with their moon gates and immortal rocks, the Zen gardens of Japan, the paradise gardens of Islam, those of Renaissance Italy with their richly mythological imagery, the landscaped parks of England,[...]
Ludvig II av Bayern (1845-1886) är kanske mest känd för de slott han lät uppföra. Det mest spektakulära av dessa, Neuschwanstein, har fått stå modell för Disneys sagoslott. De pengar Ludvig inte spenderade på tinnar och torn skänkte han till Richard Wagner för att denne skulle få tid oc[...]