At 92, Arne Naess has decided to bother only with books that fascinate him.
He has just finished a mixed bunch: Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity, a facsimile published by George Braziller (1995), Christopher Hibbert’s The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (Allen Lane, 1974), The World of Marine Life by Michael Wright and Giles Sparrow (Grange, 2002), Lou Williams Page’s A Dipper Full of Stars (California State Department of Education, 1959) and HÃ¥kon Stenstadsvold’s Norwegian Paintings through 100 years (Dreyer, 1942).
