Landscape and MemoryA.A. Knopf, 1995 - 652 pagina's "Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Pagina 259
... Nile , in fact , the river of longevity , of memory . 32 On the Nile the life - assuring obligations of reverence were ritually fulfilled by priests at stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these chiselled tables ...
... Nile , in fact , the river of longevity , of memory . 32 On the Nile the life - assuring obligations of reverence were ritually fulfilled by priests at stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these chiselled tables ...
Pagina 262
... Nile so tantalizing , so treacherous - in a word , so Cleopatran . Cleopatra , " her baleful beauty painted up beyond measure : covered with the spoils of the Red Sea ... her white breasts . . . revealed by the fabric of Sidon ...
... Nile so tantalizing , so treacherous - in a word , so Cleopatran . Cleopatra , " her baleful beauty painted up beyond measure : covered with the spoils of the Red Sea ... her white breasts . . . revealed by the fabric of Sidon ...
Pagina 266
... Nile . And what was striking about the narratives of that generation of travellers was their obstinate conviction that the waters of the Nile flowed , ultimately , from paradise . Van Ghistele , for example , was sure that it was the ...
... Nile . And what was striking about the narratives of that generation of travellers was their obstinate conviction that the waters of the Nile flowed , ultimately , from paradise . Van Ghistele , for example , was sure that it was the ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
ii | 43 |
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża bison Borglum British Caspar David Friedrich century Christian church classical climb color illus course Cozens cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates Egypt Egyptian emblem Empire England English engraving essay famous father fluvial forest France French garden German Gothic Gray grotto groves Gutzon Borglum hills holy hunting hydraulic Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner John John Robert Cozens king land landscape liberty Lithuanian living London memory Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk original Osiris pagan painting Paris park Piazza Navona poet Polish Ralegh Ramond Renaissance rock Roman Rome royal Rushmore sacred scenery seemed stone sublime symbols Tacitus temple Thames Thomas Thomas Cole thought timber tion tradition travellers tree turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods Yosemite