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  • In Miniature

  • How Small Things Illuminate the World
  • By: Simon Garfield
  • Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough
  • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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In Miniature

By: Simon Garfield
Narrated by: Adrian Scarborough
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Best-selling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things - and what small things tell us about our larger world.

“[Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid.” (Sunday Times, London)

Simon Garfield creates works that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charms and eccentricities hiding in plain sight around us. After beguiling fans with books about everything from typography to time, from historic maps to the color mauve, he’s found his most delightful topic yet: miniatures.

Tiny Eiffel Towers. Platoons of brave toy soldiers. A doll’s house created for a queen. Diminutive crime scenes crafted to catch a killer. Model villages and minuscule railways. These are just a few of the objects you will discover in the audiobook In Miniature.

Bringing together history, psychology, art, and obsession, Garfield explores what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modelers, and fans. The toys we enjoy as children invest us with a rare power at a young age, conferring on us a taste of adult-sized authority. For some, the desire to play with small things becomes a desire to make small things. We live in a vast and uncertain world, and controlling just a tiny, scaled-down part of it restores our sense of order and worth.

As it explores flea circuses, microscopic food, ancient tombs, and the Vegas Strip, In Miniature changes the way we perceive our surroundings, encouraging all of us to find greatness in the smallest of things.

©2019 Simon Garfield (P)2019 Simon & Schuster
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Delightful exploration of miniatures

I loved this book, and loved the reader's interpretation of it. Disclaimer: I'm predisposed to loving it as a miniturist and admirer of all things miniature since childhood. Grew up outside of Chicago, so I saw Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle and the Thorne Rooms at a young age and decided I wanted to make things small, too. The book goes into many areas and many examples, and how we humans perceive them, use them, and need them. Wonderful book - thoroughly enjoyed it, and was sorry it was over.

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