Landscape And MemoryKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995 - 672 pagina's A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times "Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books |
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Pagina 478
... Alps were not just the temple of sublimity . To their growing band of admirers and mythmakers in the eighteenth century , they were also the seat of virtue . As early as 1710 Joseph Addison had published an essay in The Tatler together ...
... Alps were not just the temple of sublimity . To their growing band of admirers and mythmakers in the eighteenth century , they were also the seat of virtue . As early as 1710 Joseph Addison had published an essay in The Tatler together ...
Pagina 506
... Alps themselves , which your own poets used to love so reverently , you look upon as soaped poles in a bear - garden , which you set yourselves to climb , and slide down again , with " shrieks of delight . " When you are past shrieking ...
... Alps themselves , which your own poets used to love so reverently , you look upon as soaped poles in a bear - garden , which you set yourselves to climb , and slide down again , with " shrieks of delight . " When you are past shrieking ...
Pagina 607
... Alps of Savoy in two Letters ( London , 1744 ) . 33. Windham's account was published in 1744 and is reproduced in many histories of early Alpinism , for example , G. R. De Beer , Early Travellers in the Alps ( London , 1930 ) , 99-114 ...
... Alps of Savoy in two Letters ( London , 1744 ) . 33. Windham's account was published in 1744 and is reproduced in many histories of early Alpinism , for example , G. R. De Beer , Early Travellers in the Alps ( London , 1930 ) , 99-114 ...
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