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 41
... animal so mighty that three men may be seated between his two horns " ; a beast of dark savagery com- parable to ... animals in the herd ; the phenomenal displays of strength , as when two beasts in the hunt of King Alexander in the ...
... animal so mighty that three men may be seated between his two horns " ; a beast of dark savagery com- parable to ... animals in the herd ; the phenomenal displays of strength , as when two beasts in the hunt of King Alexander in the ...
Pagina 52
... animals away in powerful disgust , preferring to take a cereal pap from a dish held by humans . And when , some years later , attempts were made to mate the female with a prize bull , the bison had responded to the courtship by charging ...
... animals away in powerful disgust , preferring to take a cereal pap from a dish held by humans . And when , some years later , attempts were made to mate the female with a prize bull , the bison had responded to the courtship by charging ...
Pagina 65
... animals were so well established in German zoos that an international register of the wisents was kept in Berlin . In the same year that German armor smashed its way through the woods , Lorenz Hagenbeck ( the son of the great animal ...
... animals were so well established in German zoos that an international register of the wisents was kept in Berlin . In the same year that German armor smashed its way through the woods , Lorenz Hagenbeck ( the son of the great animal ...
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