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 259
... Nile , in fact , the river of longevity , of memory.32 On the Nile the life - assuring obligations of reverence were ritually fulfilled by priests at stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these chiselled tables ...
... Nile , in fact , the river of longevity , of memory.32 On the Nile the life - assuring obligations of reverence were ritually fulfilled by priests at stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these chiselled tables ...
Pagina 262
... Nile so tantalizing , so treacherous - in a word , so Cleopatran . Cleopatra , " her baleful beauty painted up beyond measure : covered with the spoils of the Red Sea ... her white breasts ... revealed by the fabric of Sidon ...
... Nile so tantalizing , so treacherous - in a word , so Cleopatran . Cleopatra , " her baleful beauty painted up beyond measure : covered with the spoils of the Red Sea ... her white breasts ... revealed by the fabric of Sidon ...
Pagina 266
... Nile . And what was striking about the narratives of that generation of travellers was their obstinate conviction that the waters of the Nile flowed , ultimately , from paradise . Van Ghistele , for example , was sure that it was the ...
... Nile . And what was striking about the narratives of that generation of travellers was their obstinate conviction that the waters of the Nile flowed , ultimately , from paradise . Van Ghistele , for example , was sure that it was the ...
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