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 185
... face to face with a monster . It was maybe fifty feet round and , as close as he could guess , near three hundred feet high . It was a tree . Of course no one at Murphy's Camp would believe him . They were more likely to credit a giant ...
... face to face with a monster . It was maybe fifty feet round and , as close as he could guess , near three hundred feet high . It was a tree . Of course no one at Murphy's Camp would believe him . They were more likely to credit a giant ...
Pagina 335
... face and affected to enjoy everything that was presented to him : the noisy Te Deum , the long ballet in the Hôtel de Ville featuring a painted galliot pulled across the stage , the interminable eulo- gies . Surrounded by the noblesse ...
... face and affected to enjoy everything that was presented to him : the noisy Te Deum , the long ballet in the Hôtel de Ville featuring a painted galliot pulled across the stage , the interminable eulo- gies . Surrounded by the noblesse ...
Pagina 406
... face was meant to evoke a sense of natural disembodiment rather than the reverse.3 Rock face Buddha , Ling Ying Su Fukien Provi Dreaming of Immortality the Mountai 34 tenth centur 壶中别有天彷佛希開未慧几桃書眠夢人魚親夷壶原傳晋昌唐寅 ...
... face was meant to evoke a sense of natural disembodiment rather than the reverse.3 Rock face Buddha , Ling Ying Su Fukien Provi Dreaming of Immortality the Mountai 34 tenth centur 壶中别有天彷佛希開未慧几桃書眠夢人魚親夷壶原傳晋昌唐寅 ...
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