Landscape and Memory

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Description

An extraordinary book that explores how the earth itself has shaped the Western imagination and how, as a result, our interaction with the environment is far richer and more complex than today’s doomsayers would have us believe.

Additional information

Weight 1.02 kg
Dimensions 3.81 × 16.77 × 23.37 cm
PubliCanadanadation City/Country

Canada

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Format

Paperback

Language

Publisher

Year Published

1996-11-12

Imprint

ISBN 10

0679307745

About The Author

Simon Schama is Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.  He is the author of Citizens, Dead Certainties and An Embarrassment of Riches.  Simon Schama lives in New York with his wife and their two children.

"Marvelously rich and eloquent…Entertaining…Wonderfully learned and perceptive." –The New York Times Book Review"[Schama's] sinewy prose is everywhere enlivened by an illuminating wit and fueled by a relentless and joyful curiosity…You get the impression he will venture anywhere, intellectually speaking, in pursuit of his historical prey…He's a scintillating guide." –The Globe and Mail"Fascinating…A potpourri of biography, art history and much else, skillfully blended and handsomely illustrated…Insightful." –Maclean's

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