Landscape and memoryOne of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory 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. "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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Some claimed that brazilwood was as hard and as watertight as the best English
oak, or Cape stinkwood or New Zealand kauri or Sierra Leone teak. There was,
though, a source of timber much closer than these remote colonial rain forests.
Some claimed that brazilwood was as hard and as watertight as the best English
oak, or Cape stinkwood or New Zealand kauri or Sierra Leone teak. There was,
though, a source of timber much closer than these remote colonial rain forests.
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The discovery of the Big Trees, originally reported in the Sonora Herald, was
reprinted in the London Athenaeum and the English Gardeners' Chronicle*
Lectures were given in short order at the Royal Society and the Societe
Botanique in ...
The discovery of the Big Trees, originally reported in the Sonora Herald, was
reprinted in the London Athenaeum and the English Gardeners' Chronicle*
Lectures were given in short order at the Royal Society and the Societe
Botanique in ...
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John Leland, Henry VTH's antiquary, inaugurated the genre of the English river
poem in 1 545 with his Cygnea Cantio (Swan Song). With twelve companions,
the swan (a bird so powerfully royal that the Crown strictly reserved to itself the
right ...
John Leland, Henry VTH's antiquary, inaugurated the genre of the English river
poem in 1 545 with his Cygnea Cantio (Swan Song). With twelve companions,
the swan (a bird so powerfully royal that the Crown strictly reserved to itself the
right ...
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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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Gebruikersrecensie - JayLivernois - LibraryThingI find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good. Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
Prologue The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Landscape and memory Univers historique |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geļllustreerd |
| Uitgever | A.A. Knopf, 1995 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of California |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 juli 2008 |
| Lengte | 652 pagina's |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |