Landscape and Memory

Name: Landscape and Memory
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ISBN: 9780679735120

ISBN-10: 0679735127

ISBN-13: 9780679735120

Edition: 1996

Authors: Simon Schama

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One 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,…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/5/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Simon Schama is the author of The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, and most recently, Rembrandt's Eyes. He is currently Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. The second installment of his epic history of Britain is due to be published in April 2001.



Introduction



Wood


Prologue: The Detour



In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison



Der Holzweg: The Track Through the Woods



The Liberties of the Greenwood



The Verdant Cross



Water



Streams of Consciousness



Bloodstreams



Rock



Dinocrates and the Shaman: Altitude, Beatitude, Magnitude



Vertical Empires, Cerebral Chasms



Wood, Water, Rock



Arcadia Redesigned


Notes


A Bibliographic Guide


Acknowledgements


Index


Color plates follow pages 18, 82, 114, 210, 338, and 530