Landscape and MemoryOne of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory 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. "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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Pending this happy reformation, there were other short-term answers to the
timber famine, the most economic of which was copiously supplied by Nelson
himself, in the shape of captured French ships. Thus it was that the oak of the
Pays ...
Pending this happy reformation, there were other short-term answers to the
timber famine, the most economic of which was copiously supplied by Nelson
himself, in the shape of captured French ships. Thus it was that the oak of the
Pays ...
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For an excellent general account of medieval forest culture (principally French),
see Roland Bech- mann, Trees and Man: The Forest in the Middle Ages, trans.
Katharyn Dunham (New York, 1990). John Perlin, A Forest Journey: The Role of
...
For an excellent general account of medieval forest culture (principally French),
see Roland Bech- mann, Trees and Man: The Forest in the Middle Ages, trans.
Katharyn Dunham (New York, 1990). John Perlin, A Forest Journey: The Role of
...
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440,441,443 rivers of, 355, 363-4 Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, 336-43, illus.
33-], 342, 341 see also Fontainebleau forest; French Revolution; Paris Francini,
Tommaso, 277 Francini brothers, 341 Francis, St., 436, illus. 438, 439 Francois I,
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440,441,443 rivers of, 355, 363-4 Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, 336-43, illus.
33-], 342, 341 see also Fontainebleau forest; French Revolution; Paris Francini,
Tommaso, 277 Francini brothers, 341 Francis, St., 436, illus. 438, 439 Francois I,
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