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 83
... Tacitus's friend Pliny , “ intacta aevis et congenita mundo prope immortali sorte miracula excedit " ( coeval with the world , which surpasses all marvels by its almost immortal destiny ) .26 There is in this description a note of ...
... Tacitus's friend Pliny , “ intacta aevis et congenita mundo prope immortali sorte miracula excedit " ( coeval with the world , which surpasses all marvels by its almost immortal destiny ) .26 There is in this description a note of ...
Pagina 87
... Tacitus that ordained the conflict , for generations , for centuries to come , on and on : wood against marble ; iron against gold ; fur against silk ; brutal serious- ness against elegant irony ; bloody - minded tribalism against ...
... Tacitus that ordained the conflict , for generations , for centuries to come , on and on : wood against marble ; iron against gold ; fur against silk ; brutal serious- ness against elegant irony ; bloody - minded tribalism against ...
Pagina 89
... Tacitus only begin after the magnitude of the disaster has been realized in Rome . His account of what then followed in the long and bru- tal campaign for vindication is presented as a trial of Roman fortitude . The hap- less Varus is ...
... Tacitus only begin after the magnitude of the disaster has been realized in Rome . His account of what then followed in the long and bru- tal campaign for vindication is presented as a trial of Roman fortitude . The hap- less Varus is ...
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