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 216
... cult of Atys may have helped , rather than obstructed , the work of evangelism . On the face of it , Atys does not seem promising conversion material . Driven by the jealous and vindictive Cybele to a madness that ends in self ...
... cult of Atys may have helped , rather than obstructed , the work of evangelism . On the face of it , Atys does not seem promising conversion material . Driven by the jealous and vindictive Cybele to a madness that ends in self ...
Pagina 218
... cult in which holy trees did not function as symbols of renewal . Even a summary list would include the Persian Haoma , whose sap conferred eternal life ; the Chinese hundred - thousand - cubit Tree of Life , the Kien - mou , growing on ...
... cult in which holy trees did not function as symbols of renewal . Even a summary list would include the Persian Haoma , whose sap conferred eternal life ; the Chinese hundred - thousand - cubit Tree of Life , the Kien - mou , growing on ...
Pagina 252
... cult of nature . But that cult had begun not in the oak- woods of the foggy north , but on the great river of the south , the mother of all civilizations , the Nile . The Druid groves parted . Beyond them lay the ser- pentine effluvium ...
... cult of nature . But that cult had begun not in the oak- woods of the foggy north , but on the great river of the south , the mother of all civilizations , the Nile . The Druid groves parted . Beyond them lay the ser- pentine effluvium ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
ii | 43 |
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