Landscape and Memory - Couverture souple

Schama, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0002158973 ISBN 13 : 9780002158978

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Written by the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches" and "Citizens", this book is about man's search for his cultural origins in the landscape which surrounds him, a search which is as old as civilization itself. Forests, rivers, mountains, islands - what meanings have men invested in them, and how have they in turn shaped men's imaginations? For example, in five opening chapters, Schama shows how each of the great European cultures imagined their woodlands in ways which spoke to their collective needs. In Poland, the last great primeval forest in Europe, the woods represented liberty against the oppression of Russia and Germany. In Germany, they represented the shrine of the Teutonic spirit. In England, justice, the "King's Peace" under the greenwood. In France, order. In America, among the glades of the giant redwoods, the oldest living things in the world, the possibility of making a heaven on Earth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Schama was born in London in 1945 and educated at Cambridge University, where from 1966 to 1976 he was a Fellow of Christ’s College. He is now Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and one of the most celebrated historians now at work anywhere in the world.

Schama is married and has two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002158973
• ISBN 13: 9780002158978
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 704
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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