Landscape And Memory
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679735127 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books. 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. 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 scopeconsistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times"Extraordinarya summary cannot convey the riches
From Publishers Weekly Historian Schama explores the roles that have been played by landscapes in myth, art and culture. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Miriam Milman said A TRUE THRILLING SHAMA BOOK. As usually, Schama proves to be a great thinker and a great writer. Knowing that he also teaches Art History, I expected this book of his to contain his thoughts about painted landscapes. I had to realise it is FAR from it. All about his ancestors life in the wild, rather frightening dark woods of the baltic countries. And it manages to be thrilling, so knowledgeable, and witty.!!!Shama proves again . This is one of the challenging book I have ever This is one of the challenging book I have ever written. Schama creative, complex and storied manner of telling his stories is remarkable. Relating cultural myths and icons to rocks and water and woods is remarkable and to get into each insight requires reserving you thoughts for a slow assessment is required. I spent several days on just 3 pages.. Tressa said Five Stars. love polish woods -thank you