Landscape And Memory

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A Time Magazine Easiest Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning writer Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to show 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 at the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result’s 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 significant ambition and enormous intellectual scope…consistently provocative and revealing.”–New York Times

“Abnormal…a summary can not convey the riches of this book. It’s going to take in, instruct, and fascinate.”–New York Review of Books


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