Landscape and Memory - Softcover

Schama, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679307745 ISBN 13: 9780679307747

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 1996

Synopsis

An extraordinary book that explores how the earth itself has shaped the Western imagination and how, as a result, our interaction with the environment is far richer and more complex than today's doomsayers would have us believe.

About this title

Product Description:

In Good Condition. |\ LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY by SIMON SCHAMA. Published by HARPER COLLINS 1995. Paperback.

Review:

"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

From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679307745
• ISBN 13: 9780679307747
• Binding: Paperback