Landscape and Memory - Couverture rigide

Schama CBE, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679402551 ISBN 13 : 9780679402558

Editeur : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Schama Simon

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Revue de presse :

"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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679402551
• ISBN 13: 9780679402558
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 37