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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29596504 Title: Landscape and memory Author: Simon Schama Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©1995. ISBN/ISSN: 0679402551 9780679402558 OCLC:29596504

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Landscape and memory

Author:	Simon Schama
Publisher:	New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©1995.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Simon Schama Find more information about:
ISBN:	0679402551 9780679402558
OCLC Number:	29596504
Description:	xi, 652 p., [37] p. of plates (some folded) : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:	pt. 1. Wood: Prologue: The detour ; ch. 1. In the relam of the Lithuanian bison: The royal beats of Baiłowieża. Dt The last foray. Mortality, immortality ; ch. 2. Der Holzweg : the track through the woods: The hunt for Germania. Blood in the forest. Arminius Redivivus ; Waldsterleben ; ch. 3. The liberties of the greenwwod: Green men. living in the woods : laws and outlaws. Hearts of oak and bulwarks of liberty? The pillars of Gaul. In extremis ; ch. 4. The verdant cross: Grizzlies. Vegetable resurrection. Pathfinders. The verdant cross. Rabernacles. Volvos at the sepulchre -- pt. 2. Water: ch. 5. Streams of consciousness: The flow of myth. Circulation : arteries and mysteries. Holy confluences. Fons sapientiae. Nile brought to Tiber. Bernini and the four rivers ; ch. 6. Bloodstreams: Sir Walter Ralegh loses his drift. The man in the brown paper boat. Power lines. The political theory of whitebait. Bodies of water. The waters of Isis : the Thames and the Nile -- pt. 3. Rock: ch. 7. Dinocrates and the shaman : altitude, beatitude, magnitude: The woman on Mount Rushmore. Donocrates and the shaman. Elevations. Exorcising Pilate. Calvaries of convenience. The last Sacro Monte? ; ch. 8. Vertical empires, cerebral chasms: Delightful horror. Vertical empires, cerebral chasms. The seat of virtue. Conquests. Albert the Great. Prospects of salvation -- pt. 4. Wood, water, rock: ch. 9. Arcadia redesigned: Et in Arcadia ego. Primitives and pastorals. Rudeness and confusion. An Arcadia for the people : the Forest of Fontainebleau. Arcadia under glass. The wild, hairy huckleberry.
Responsibility:	Simon Schama.
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Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality.

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