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 78
... took pleasure in showing off well into his eighties . Whenever possible he lunched at Giovanni's , in midtown , where herds of zebra roamed the crimson wallpaper but the pasta tasted paisan . At home , the Fascist government took a ...
... took pleasure in showing off well into his eighties . Whenever possible he lunched at Giovanni's , in midtown , where herds of zebra roamed the crimson wallpaper but the pasta tasted paisan . At home , the Fascist government took a ...
Pagina 482
... took the son of the earl of Pembroke into the high mountains of the northeast ranges . The itinerary was itself significant in that it was not , for once , a mere stage en route to Italy , but rather was delib- erately organized as a ...
... took the son of the earl of Pembroke into the high mountains of the northeast ranges . The itinerary was itself significant in that it was not , for once , a mere stage en route to Italy , but rather was delib- erately organized as a ...
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... took a week for someone in the gang to liberate a file from a paternal toolbox , and another week of furtive after- school filing , before we got the chain off . Taking turns to saw away at the flak- ing chain made us feel happily ...
... took a week for someone in the gang to liberate a file from a paternal toolbox , and another week of furtive after- school filing , before we got the chain off . Taking turns to saw away at the flak- ing chain made us feel happily ...
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