Landscape and MemoryA 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
... were better preserved than anywhere else; what made the 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.
... were better preserved than anywhere else; what made the 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.
Pagina 262
And it was precisely the denial of this sovereign possession to Greeks, Romans,
French, and British that made the Nile so tantalizing, so treacherous — in a word,
so Cleopatran. Cleopatra, "her baletul beauty painted up beyond measure: ...
And it was precisely the denial of this sovereign possession to Greeks, Romans,
French, and British that made the Nile so tantalizing, so treacherous — in a word,
so Cleopatran. Cleopatra, "her baletul beauty painted up beyond measure: ...
Pagina 266
"ss For much of the Middle Ages, the Muslim conquest of Egypt put serious
obstacles in the way of those who still wanted to penetrate the mysteries of the
Nile. Even the more adventurous pilgrims confined themselves to the traditional
Holy ...
"ss For much of the Middle Ages, the Muslim conquest of Egypt put serious
obstacles in the way of those who still wanted to penetrate the mysteries of the
Nile. Even the more adventurous pilgrims confined themselves to the traditional
Holy ...
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LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusWith this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - JayLivernois - LibraryThingI find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good. Volledige review lezen
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Landscape and Memory Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Vintage, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0679735127, 9780679735120 |
| Lengte | 652 pagina's |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |