Landscape And Memory

One of Time Magazines Best Books of the YearIn Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to revealthe psychic claims that human beings ha... » 

One of Time Magazines Best Books of the YearIn Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to revealthe psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazicult of the primeval German forest the play of Christian and pagan myth inBerninis Fountain of the Four Rivers and the duel between a monumentalsculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is atriumphant work of history naturalism mythology and art.A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistentlyprovocative and revealing.New York TimesExtraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It willabsorb instruct and fascinate.New York Review of Books «