From Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 26 February 2018
About this Item
Mustard yellow cloth over boards with gilt tree/shephard/dog on cover and gilt titling on spine. Despite the size and heft of the book (652 pp) the book is tight, square and totally free of markings inside. Vintage map endpapers, 250 black~and~white and 45 full~color illustrations including a full~color gatefold. Notes, a bibliographic guide, acknowledgments, index, world history, historiography, psychology, philosophy, mythology, folklore, etc. etc. 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. Unclipped Dust Jacket is equally Fine with no visible flaws. This is the copy of this important book for your library. One of NY Times best books of the year. Now protected by archival quality mylar. Seller Inventory # blb01534
Bibliographic Details
Title: Landscape and Memory
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf - New York
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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