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 220
... taken root and was in full blossom , and from then on was expected to repeat the miracle each Christmas . And though the iconoclastic Puritans deliberately destroyed the Glastonbury Thorn during the Civil War in their campaign to uproot ...
... taken root and was in full blossom , and from then on was expected to repeat the miracle each Christmas . And though the iconoclastic Puritans deliberately destroyed the Glastonbury Thorn during the Civil War in their campaign to uproot ...
Pagina 489
... taken , the barometric pressures recorded , altimeter readings made , flags planted on peaks , sketches taken to immortalize the moment , something still seemed to have gone wrong with the picture . In the passages that deal with this ...
... taken , the barometric pressures recorded , altimeter readings made , flags planted on peaks , sketches taken to immortalize the moment , something still seemed to have gone wrong with the picture . In the passages that deal with this ...
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... taken an entire forest that was supposed to be off limits to those not properly trained and licensed , and turned it into one enormous open - air resort of public amusement . It was the trespass to end all trespasses : a violation of ...
... taken an entire forest that was supposed to be off limits to those not properly trained and licensed , and turned it into one enormous open - air resort of public amusement . It was the trespass to end all trespasses : a violation of ...
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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