Landscape and Memory
Language: English
Published by Harpercollins Publisher, 1995
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Emily Green Books, North Shields, United KingdomEmily Green Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Photos included in listing. About the book 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.
Seller Inventory # 2512
- Title
- Landscape and Memory
- Author
- Schama, Simon
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Publisher
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0002158973
- ISBN 13
- 9780002158978
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1.8 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 18.1 centimeters width by 24.6 centimeters height by 4.5 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Cultural Studies, European History
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About the Author
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.
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