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Landscape And Memory

By Schama Simon

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| Hardcover | 9780679402558

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Book 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.

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Fantastic and Thoughtful Read

This is a very wide ranging and creative survey of how humanity has created culture, art, and literature out of our relationships (both symbiotic and destructive) with nature. From the plight of the Lithuanian Bison to the heights of Mont Blanc, Schama takes the reader on an absolutely unique and e ... (continue)

This is a very wide ranging and creative survey of how humanity has created culture, art, and literature out of our relationships (both symbiotic and destructive) with nature. From the plight of the Lithuanian Bison to the heights of Mont Blanc, Schama takes the reader on an absolutely unique and engrossingly discursive journey.

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