false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167301808m/21071.jpg 21071 8 One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year<br><br><br>In <b>Landscape and Memory</b> Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art. <br><br><br><br>"A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times<br><br><br>"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books 22258 1995 Landscape And Memory total:128|5:56|4:41|3:24|2:7|1:0| 128 530 294 15 4 1 true false Thu Feb 22 09:45:42 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 16 13:04:57 -0700 2007 Landscape and Memory is a long book. It is hard not to be impressed by the shear number of pages Simon Schama can put out. And his subject matter - the cultural perception of landscape and its use in national discourses - is one I enjoy. This is an incredibly broad-brush view of the subject, meander...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 17 11:02:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:07:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 02 00:40:02 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 01:14:20 -0700 2007 Citizens, Simon Schama's prose can be more than a little convoluted at times; he's almost too erudite for his own good. And I'm not sure his thesis - that our perceptions of the landscape (or the natural world in general) are inevitably colored by the meaning that we invest ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 17 10:23:20 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 10:32:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Aug 15 18:40:33 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 18:46:38 -0700 2009 3 1 false false Sat Jul 11 22:20:07 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 18:18:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 09:03:26 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 12:05:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jun 14 22:00:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 22:01:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 26 16:26:03 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 16:26:03 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Mar 02 15:04:28 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 25 23:07:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 11:27:23 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 08 20:51:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Sat Feb 02 08:40:36 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 10:25:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 14 15:29:34 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 15:30:16 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Thu Jul 19 06:19:25 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 06:20:43 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jul 28 18:26:33 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 18:26:33 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Nov 28 15:51:28 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 15:51:28 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 17:52:34 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 17:52:34 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 21 10:52:43 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 10:52:43 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 15:10:59 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 15:11:23 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 20:08:27 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 20:08:27 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=21071