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 154
... timber to process it . Thus the great woods of Robertsbridge Abbey in Sussex , for example , made Sir William Sidney , the grandfather of the poet , one of the richest ironmasters of the kingdom.41 In 1580 William Harrison lamented that ...
... timber to process it . Thus the great woods of Robertsbridge Abbey in Sussex , for example , made Sir William Sidney , the grandfather of the poet , one of the richest ironmasters of the kingdom.41 In 1580 William Harrison lamented that ...
Pagina 174
... timber famine , the most economic of which was copiously supplied by Nel- son himself , in the shape of captured French ships . Thus it was that the oak of the Pays Basque and the pines of the Pyrenees were refitted to fly the white ...
... timber famine , the most economic of which was copiously supplied by Nel- son himself , in the shape of captured French ships . Thus it was that the oak of the Pays Basque and the pines of the Pyrenees were refitted to fly the white ...
Pagina 181
... timber from the dense Canadian forests of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had seemed prohibitive . But such was the des- peration of the wartime navy that they were now prepared to swallow the price . Sources even further afield were ...
... timber from the dense Canadian forests of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had seemed prohibitive . But such was the des- peration of the wartime navy that they were now prepared to swallow the price . Sources even further afield were ...
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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