Landscape and Memory

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• The Argument from Design

  The five videotapes of Simon Schama’s BBC 2 series Landscape and Memory must have been sent to me in a wrapping all too suspiciously plain. They never arrived, nicked, we presume, by a postal worker with a thing for blue movies. I like to think he wa ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

• The Big Cake

  In the first paragraph of this extraordinary book, Simon Schama reveals that his favorite childhood reading was Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill. Fellow-enthusiasts of this enchanting idyll will not be surprised to learn that it fired his historical ima ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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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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• English Books
• Paperback 672 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0679735127
• ISBN-13: 9780679735120
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Nov 05, 1996
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1097 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others

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