Landscape and memory

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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 … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Simon Schama, 1945-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

xi, 652 stran, 1 nečíslovaný složený list a 32 nečíslovaných stran obrazových příloh : ilustrace (převážně barevné), portréty, faksimile ; 23 cm

Published

New York : Vintage Books, 1996

Edition

First Vintage Books edition

Subjects

krajina

péče o krajinu

ekologie člověka

člověk a příroda

umění a krajina

environmentální dějiny

landscape

landscape assessment

human ecology

man and nature

art and landscape

environmental history

úvahy

essays

Bibliography

Obsahuje bibliografii, bibliografické odkazy a rejstříky

ISBN

978-0-679-73512-0