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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... seen as the carriers of havoc and death . The Nilometers at Cairo and Elephantine were only auspicious if they regis- tered exactly the right number of cubits ( sixteen , the same number of parts into which Osiris had been sliced ) as ...
... seen as the carriers of havoc and death . The Nilometers at Cairo and Elephantine were only auspicious if they regis- tered exactly the right number of cubits ( sixteen , the same number of parts into which Osiris had been sliced ) as ...
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... seen before was nothing but woods , prickles , bushes and thornes , here we beheld great plains of twenty miles in length , the grasse shorte and greene and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves as if they had been by all the ...
... seen before was nothing but woods , prickles , bushes and thornes , here we beheld great plains of twenty miles in length , the grasse shorte and greene and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves as if they had been by all the ...
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... seen to be gracefully curved . These relatively soft and gentle lines documented the continual shifts and folds to which the earth had been subjected , and which were merely overlaid with the splinters and shreds of sharp - ended rocks ...
... seen to be gracefully curved . These relatively soft and gentle lines documented the continual shifts and folds to which the earth had been subjected , and which were merely overlaid with the splinters and shreds of sharp - ended rocks ...
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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