Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
Written by the author of The Embarrassment of Riches and Citizens, this book is about man's search for his cultural origins in the landscape which surrounds him, a search which is as old as civilization itself. Forests, rivers, mountains, islands - what meanings have men invested in them, and how have they in turn shaped men's imaginations? For example, in five opening chapters, Schama shows how each of the great European cultures imagined their woodlands in ways which spoke to their collective needs. In Poland, the last great primeval forest in Europe, the woods represented liberty against the oppression of Russia and Germany. In Germany, they represented the shrine of the Teutonic spirit. In England, justice, the King's Peace under the greenwood. In France, order. In America, among the glades of the giant redwoods, the oldest living things in the world, the possibility of making a heaven on Earth.Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. He is the author of 'Patriots and Liberators', which won the Wolfson Prize for History, 'The Embarrassment of Riches', 'Citizens' which won the 1990 NCR book award for non-fiction, 'Dead Certainties', 'Landscape and Memory' which won the W H Smith Literary Award in 1995, and 'Rembrandt's Eyes' (1999). He is also the author of the monumental 'History of Britain' published in three volumes. He was art critic of the 'New Yorker' from 1995 to 1998 and was made CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours list.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002158978 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002158973 |
| Title | Landscape and Memory |
| Author | Simon Schama |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Prizes | Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1996, Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1996, Short-listed for NCR Book Award 1996 |
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