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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... earth to be treated by the West as a machine that would never break , however hard it was used and abused.12 For Lynn White , Jr. , it was the invention , in the seventh century A.D. , of a fixed - harnessed plow that sealed the earth's ...
... earth to be treated by the West as a machine that would never break , however hard it was used and abused.12 For Lynn White , Jr. , it was the invention , in the seventh century A.D. , of a fixed - harnessed plow that sealed the earth's ...
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... Earth ) , first published in 1681 , had the effect of making mountains more fas- cinating , rather than more repulsive , was itself a paradox . For he had been argu- ing against the complacent view of Platonists at Cambridge , that even ...
... Earth ) , first published in 1681 , had the effect of making mountains more fas- cinating , rather than more repulsive , was itself a paradox . For he had been argu- ing against the complacent view of Platonists at Cambridge , that even ...
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... earth live depended on the generative work of mountain ranges ? Mountains regulated the cycle of rain and river without which the land would be desert ; mountains moved the " change in the currents of and nature of air " ; and mountains ...
... earth live depended on the generative work of mountain ranges ? Mountains regulated the cycle of rain and river without which the land would be desert ; mountains moved the " change in the currents of and nature of air " ; and mountains ...
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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