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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... hill had been given a fresh crown of yellow sand on which rested roughhewn slabs of pol- ished granite . The stones ... hills , those fields beside The azure Niemen , spreading green and wide , The vari - painted cornfields like a quilt ...
... hill had been given a fresh crown of yellow sand on which rested roughhewn slabs of pol- ished granite . The stones ... hills , those fields beside The azure Niemen , spreading green and wide , The vari - painted cornfields like a quilt ...
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... hill . On the outskirts of the ancient Polish capital of Kraków , another patriot son of Lithuania , Tadeusz Kościuszko , fallen in a doomed revolutionary struggle against Russia in the 1790s , is enshrined by just such a hill ...
... hill . On the outskirts of the ancient Polish capital of Kraków , another patriot son of Lithuania , Tadeusz Kościuszko , fallen in a doomed revolutionary struggle against Russia in the 1790s , is enshrined by just such a hill ...
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... hills and mountains of the Franche - Comté to the inventory . Before long the forested hills of the Vosges would be added to the realm . Philibert de l'Orme , tree - column from Le Premier Tome de PArchitectur 1567 . After an initial ...
... hills and mountains of the Franche - Comté to the inventory . Before long the forested hills of the Vosges would be added to the realm . Philibert de l'Orme , tree - column from Le Premier Tome de PArchitectur 1567 . After an initial ...
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