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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... climb and amazingly high and in natural form like a high tower with the steep part as if it had been cut by hand . The way round it takes more than one day . On the sides of the mountain trees are scarce . Many birds of various kinds ...
... climb and amazingly high and in natural form like a high tower with the steep part as if it had been cut by hand . The way round it takes more than one day . On the sides of the mountain trees are scarce . Many birds of various kinds ...
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... climb Philip's moun- tain , Petrarch in turn wonders whether from the top of Mont Ventoux he might himself be able to see both the western Mediterranean at the Pyrenean border , and east to the Tyrrhenian Sea and his native Italy . Even ...
... climb Philip's moun- tain , Petrarch in turn wonders whether from the top of Mont Ventoux he might himself be able to see both the western Mediterranean at the Pyrenean border , and east to the Tyrrhenian Sea and his native Italy . Even ...
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... climb so compelling , and its author so endearing . It was the Voyages dans les Alpes , put into the hands of the fifteen - year - old Ruskin , that converted him to the cult of mountains for the rest of his life , precisely because ...
... climb so compelling , and its author so endearing . It was the Voyages dans les Alpes , put into the hands of the fifteen - year - old Ruskin , that converted him to the cult of mountains for the rest of his life , precisely because ...
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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 animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża Big Trees bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Christian church classical climb color illus cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates emblem Empire England English essay famous Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king land landscape Lithuanian living London memory Mickiewicz Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish primitive Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed symbols Tacitus temple Thames Thomas Thomas Cole thought timber tion tradition trans turned University valley village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York Yosemite