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ISBN-10: 0679735127
ISBN-13: 9780679735120
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 11/05/1996
Dimensions: 9.36" L, 6.66" W, 1.42" H

Landscape and Memory (Vintage)

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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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"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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ISBN-10: 0679735127
ISBN-13: 9780679735120
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 11/05/1996
Dimensions: 9.36" L, 6.66" W, 1.42" H
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