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 146
... less an out- and - out tyranny and more of an officious interference in the busy world of the woods . The penalties recorded in their books far more commonly list fines than mutilation or the gibbet.30 What we know of the social reality ...
... less an out- and - out tyranny and more of an officious interference in the busy world of the woods . The penalties recorded in their books far more commonly list fines than mutilation or the gibbet.30 What we know of the social reality ...
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... less , for deep in the crumbling mold Cowper discovers the renewal of life . Embowell'd now , and of thy ancient self Possessing nought but the scoop'd rind , that seems An huge throat calling to the clouds for drink ... Yet is thy root ...
... less , for deep in the crumbling mold Cowper discovers the renewal of life . Embowell'd now , and of thy ancient self Possessing nought but the scoop'd rind , that seems An huge throat calling to the clouds for drink ... Yet is thy root ...
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... less dogmatic . Perhaps , who knows , they had all underestimated the tenacity of cults and myths on the imagination of mankind ? They had imagined themselves inventors of a new world when in reality they were tied by nature to the ...
... less dogmatic . Perhaps , who knows , they had all underestimated the tenacity of cults and myths on the imagination of mankind ? They had imagined themselves inventors of a new world when in reality they were tied by nature to the ...
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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