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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

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Vintage
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November 5, 1996
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6.6 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
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0679735127
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978-0679735120
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Historian Schama explores the roles that have been played by landscapes in myth, art and culture.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"Marvelously rich and eloquent...Entertaining...Wonderfully learned and perceptive." --The New York Times Book Review

"[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

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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, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books

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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, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books

About the Author

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, including The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy and The Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of the Financial Times and his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art.

Publisher : Vintage; Vintage ed. edition (November 5, 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 672 pages
ISBN-10 : 0679735127
ISBN-13 : 978-0679735120
Item Weight : 2.39 pounds
Dimensions : 6.6 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches

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Michael J. Lavin

This is one of the challenging book I have ever ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014

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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.

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Miriam Milman

A TRUE THRILLING SHAMA BOOK

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015

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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 to be a great writer ....and a thrilling personality one would like to meet one day..

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Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2017

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love polish woods -thank you

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Ellery Green

Gentle Read

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016

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Interesting musings. Uneven. At times I was caught up in the narrative, but then he would lose me. Schama has been one of my favorites but this time he seemed to be working too hard. I did gain a few new insights and usually shared his mood.

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Ramona Darling

Another Schama gem

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2012

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I love SS and his writing style - his narrative doesn't wander so much as encompasses many levels and aspects of history, anecdote, art, and general human understanding. This book is a joy to read. There were so many bits that I wanted to share with friends, but settled on the story of his father and the whitebait - p352 - as an example of what is in store.

I read it for the pleasure of it, but I will also now look at and paint landscapes differently.

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goethean

Excellent historically-informed philosophy from a great mind

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2003

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Surprisingly, the other reviewers on this site seem to have missed the point of the book. The point is that our perceptions of nature are not merely historically informed, but historically constituted. The irrespressable Lithuanian Bison was the formative metaphor for the Lithuanian pagan cultural ideal of freedom. Ultimately, it's a cultural case for the preservation of wilderness because that wilderness is part of who we are in the deepest sense. Agree or disagree with Schama's thesis, but you should try to comprehend the book before you review it. Personally, I think it's brilliant.

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Kate Harding

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2017

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Essential reading.

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Rocco Casareto Dal Luca

The landscape of the memory and the memory of the landscape

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014

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This is one of the best book I ever read. It tells history as it were a novel where every little detail hidden in the landscape throughout the world becomes a main actor of a plot. It's like sketching with words. It tells how intriguing is to look at, really to look at, even when it seems there's nothing to look at. Antropic landscape and nature are the two superheroes that play kind of a classic drama.

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Harry Soda

I love SimonSchama's writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2018

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I love SimonSchama's writing, and here he methodically deals with the relevance of wood, water and rock, a novel way to give reason to national directions and style.

Cymru

Beauty of knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2018

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Offers natural prelude to the keenly anticipated civilisation series along with his other TV series and books

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Genuine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2019

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amazing history - will probably take me at least a year to read it!
Great condition - arrived promptly what more can I say

melanie

It was in very good condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2020

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It is in excellent condition and arrived well before the date promised. Really pleased with the service. Many thanks

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2016

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schama is always a very good read

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