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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... climb Philip's moun- tain , Petrarch in turn wonders whether from the top of Mont Ventoux he might himself be able to see both the western Mediterranean at the Pyrenean border , and east to the Tyrrhenian Sea and his native Italy . Even ...
... climb Philip's moun- tain , Petrarch in turn wonders whether from the top of Mont Ventoux he might himself be able to see both the western Mediterranean at the Pyrenean border , and east to the Tyrrhenian Sea and his native Italy . Even ...
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... climb so compelling , and its author so endearing . It was the Voyages dans les Alpes , put into the hands of the fifteen - year - old Ruskin , that converted him to the cult of mountains for the rest of his life , precisely because ...
... climb so compelling , and its author so endearing . It was the Voyages dans les Alpes , put into the hands of the fifteen - year - old Ruskin , that converted him to the cult of mountains for the rest of his life , precisely because ...
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Simon Schama. So , as all historians of the climb have noted , Bourrit invented a version of the event which , by ... climb down one side of the pinnacles and up the other , with rudi- Ambroise Tardieu , after St. Our Horace Béné de ...
Simon Schama. So , as all historians of the climb have noted , Bourrit invented a version of the event which , by ... climb down one side of the pinnacles and up the other , with rudi- Ambroise Tardieu , after St. Our Horace Béné de ...
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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