Landscape and Memory: A Unique History of How Forests and Rivers Shape Human Culture - Softcover

Schama, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006863485 ISBN 13: 9780006863489

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004

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A Unique History of How Forests and Rivers Shape Human Culture

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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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The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained…

‘Landscape and Memory’ is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us – rivers, mountains, forests – the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs.

This is not a conventional history book, but a book that builds up its argument by a series of poetic stories and impressions which cumulatively have the effect of a great novel. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – at the end of this wonderful book we understand where these ideas have come from, why they are so compelling and how they still lie all around us.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0006863485
• ISBN 13: 9780006863489
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 672
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