Landscape And Memory

Author: Simon Schama

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General Fields

  • : $34.99 AUD
  • : 9780006863489
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 1.54
  • : September 1994
  • : 240mm X 175mm X 43mm
  • : 34.99
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Simon Schama
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  • : Paperback
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  • : 652
  • : 32pp colour plates, 200 bw illustrations
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Barcode 9780006863489
9780006863489

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Second hand. good condition.


The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape 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 history 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 -- and the end of the wonderful book we understand where these ideas have come from, why they are so compelling and how they still lie all around us.