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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... Lithuanian town ; Polish spo- ken to strangers , the Baltic tongue among its people . When Vilnius was being intimidated into temporary submission by Soviet troops in 1990 , an office of the Lithuanian independence movement Sajudis was ...
... Lithuanian town ; Polish spo- ken to strangers , the Baltic tongue among its people . When Vilnius was being intimidated into temporary submission by Soviet troops in 1990 , an office of the Lithuanian independence movement Sajudis was ...
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... Lithuanian forest " and no other place in the world . " The survival of the ancient bison in the primeval woodland of the Polish - Lithuanian realm somehow seemed a sign of its elect historical destiny . So as much as Mikołaj Hussowski ...
... Lithuanian forest " and no other place in the world . " The survival of the ancient bison in the primeval woodland of the Polish - Lithuanian realm somehow seemed a sign of its elect historical destiny . So as much as Mikołaj Hussowski ...
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... Lithuanian kings , ye trees Of Świteź , Kuszelewo , Białowieża , Whose shadow once the crowned heads did cover Ye woods ! the last to hunt among you there Was the last king great Witold's cap to wear , Last happy warrior of Jagiello's ...
... Lithuanian kings , ye trees Of Świteź , Kuszelewo , Białowieża , Whose shadow once the crowned heads did cover Ye woods ! the last to hunt among you there Was the last king great Witold's cap to wear , Last happy warrior of Jagiello's ...
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Chamonix Christian church classical climb color illus cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates eighteenth Empire England English essay father Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king land landscape liberty Lithuanian living London medieval memory Mickiewicz modern Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk original Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish political Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed symbol Tacitus Tadeusz temple Thames Thomas thought timber tion tradition trans trees turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York Yosemite