Landscape and Memory"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 50
Where were the beech trees? For there was everything else: ash, aspen, maple,
oak, linden, willow, birch, elm, hornbeams and spindle trees, pine and fir, all
growing in a crazed jumble, amidst a vast botanical charnel house of rotting
trunks, ...
Where were the beech trees? For there was everything else: ash, aspen, maple,
oak, linden, willow, birch, elm, hornbeams and spindle trees, pine and fir, all
growing in a crazed jumble, amidst a vast botanical charnel house of rotting
trunks, ...
Pagina 57
Mickiewicz addresses them familiarly as ancestors, kin, friends, but also
reverentially as the pillars of an unwritten, organic constitution: Comrades of
Lithuanian kings, ye trees OfSwitez, Kuszelewo, Bialowieza, Whose shadow
once the ...
Mickiewicz addresses them familiarly as ancestors, kin, friends, but also
reverentially as the pillars of an unwritten, organic constitution: Comrades of
Lithuanian kings, ye trees OfSwitez, Kuszelewo, Bialowieza, Whose shadow
once the ...
Pagina 218
But at exactly that time an even more spectacular example of tree idols appeared
in the projections over the south portal at Chartres Cathedral. There, the foliate
heads seem to have been chosen by Abbot Thierry with an eye to their suitability
...
But at exactly that time an even more spectacular example of tree idols appeared
in the projections over the south portal at Chartres Cathedral. There, the foliate
heads seem to have been chosen by Abbot Thierry with an eye to their suitability
...
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LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusWith this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ... Volledige review lezen
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Introduction | 3 |
Prologue The Detour | 23 |
chapter one In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
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