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Landscape and Memory
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, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Nov 5th, 1996
- Pages: 672
- Language: English
- Edition: Vintage - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.36in - 6.66in - 1.42in - 2.39lb
- EAN: 9780679735120
- Categories: • Historiography• History - General• General
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What people are saying
Michael Chabon is a novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer.
I am completely in love with the wit, erudition and sweep of the powerfully curious mind behind this dazzling, omnidirectional book...
Canadian author. Named to Order of Canada in 2014. 15 novels in 30+ languages. ALL THE SEAS OF THE WORLD now out in paperback. Joined June 2009.
@simon_schama Simon, it was passages in Landscape and Memory that started me thinking about using a massive, forest god-level zubir in Sailing to Sarantium. I owe you a drink for that, if nothing else.
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@ElenaWicker My very favorites are "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris, "Landscape and Memory" by Simon Schama and "The Phantom Empire" by Timothy O'Brien
Praise for this book
"[Schama's] sinewy prose is everywhere enlivened by an illuminating wit and fueled by a relentless and joyful curiosity...You get the impression he will venture anywhere, intellectually speaking, in pursuit of his historical prey...He's a scintillating guide." --The Globe and Mail
"Fascinating...A potpourri of biography, art history and much else, skillfully blended and handsomely illustrated...Insightful." --Maclean's
What people are saying
Michael Chabon is a novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer.
I am completely in love with the wit, erudition and sweep of the powerfully curious mind behind this dazzling, omnidirectional book...
Canadian author. Named to Order of Canada in 2014. 15 novels in 30+ languages. ALL THE SEAS OF THE WORLD now out in paperback. Joined June 2009.
@simon_schama Simon, it was passages in Landscape and Memory that started me thinking about using a massive, forest god-level zubir in Sailing to Sarantium. I owe you a drink for that, if nothing else.