Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama Cbe

Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama Cbe

A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon 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, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens.

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

Schama, Simon: -

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His award-winning books include Scribble, Scribble, Scribble; The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.

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ISBN 13	9780679402558
ISBN 10	0679402551
Title	Landscape and Memory
Author	Simon Schama Cbe
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	1995-04-04
Number of pages	37
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