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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... thought of my father , looking stoically out at Hamp- stead Heath and reverting to cricket metaphors before he died : " When you've had your innings , you've had your innings . " The tombs themselves were being buried , sliding gently ...
... thought of my father , looking stoically out at Hamp- stead Heath and reverting to cricket metaphors before he died : " When you've had your innings , you've had your innings . " The tombs themselves were being buried , sliding gently ...
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... thought of Julius von Brincken , Tsar Nicholas I's chief forester , tracking the chocolate - brown animals through the winter snow , inking their numbers on his census.1 But most of all I thought of Mikołaj Hussowski . IMAGINE A YOUNG ...
... thought of Julius von Brincken , Tsar Nicholas I's chief forester , tracking the chocolate - brown animals through the winter snow , inking their numbers on his census.1 But most of all I thought of Mikołaj Hussowski . IMAGINE A YOUNG ...
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... thought the friar , that it could only be compared to the feats of Alexander . A winningly naive tale of Christian knightly zeal , straight from the reper- toire of the Spanish reconquista , where chivalry had a long afterlife , Pedro's ...
... thought the friar , that it could only be compared to the feats of Alexander . A winningly naive tale of Christian knightly zeal , straight from the reper- toire of the Spanish reconquista , where chivalry had a long afterlife , Pedro's ...
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