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 308
... body of man and those that watered the earth ? Our " blood which disperseth itself by the branches or veins through all the body , may be resembled to these waters which are carried by brooks and rivers overall the earth . " 2 And just ...
... body of man and those that watered the earth ? Our " blood which disperseth itself by the branches or veins through all the body , may be resembled to these waters which are carried by brooks and rivers overall the earth . " 2 And just ...
Pagina 419
... body and the repose of the soul became more urgent . The tension between physical and metaphysical exertion is , for example , at the heart of the most famous of all early climbing narratives : the poet Petrarch's ascent of Mont Ventoux ...
... body and the repose of the soul became more urgent . The tension between physical and metaphysical exertion is , for example , at the heart of the most famous of all early climbing narratives : the poet Petrarch's ascent of Mont Ventoux ...
Pagina 430
... body and soul seem perfectly companionable in the light , thin air . By the last quarter of the sixteenth century the well - prepared Alpine traveller had a rich variety of maps and guides to help his body over the more than a hun- dred ...
... body and soul seem perfectly companionable in the light , thin air . By the last quarter of the sixteenth century the well - prepared Alpine traveller had a rich variety of maps and guides to help his body over the more than a hun- dred ...
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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