Landscape and memory / Simon Schama
1995, First Edition. London : Harper Collins. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #441298
ISBN: 0002158973
Physical description; xi, 652 p., [37] p. of plates (some folded) : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-621) and index. Contents; Wood: Prologue : The detour ; In the realm of the Lithuanian bison: The royal beasts of Bai owie a ; The last foray ; Mortality, immortality -- Der Holzweg : the track through the woods: The hunt for Germania ; Blood in the forest ; Arminius Redivivus ; Waldsterben -- The liberties of the greenwood: Green men ; Living in the woods : laws and outlaws ; Hearts of oak and bulwarks of liberty? ; The pillars of Gaul ; In extremis -- The verdant cross: Grizzlies ; Vegetable resurrection ; Pathfinders ; The verdant cross ; Tabernacles ; Volvos at the sepulchre -- Water: Streams of consciousness: The flow of myth ; Circulation : arteries and mysteries ; Holy confluences ; Fons sapientiae ; Nile brought to Tiber ; Bernini and the four rivers -- Bloodstreams: Sir Walter Ralegh loses his drift ; The man in the brown paper boat ; Power lines ; The political theory of whitebait ; Bodies of water ; The waters of Isis : the Thames and the Nile -- Rock: Dinocrates and the shaman : altitude, beatitude, magnitude: The woman on Mount Rushmore ; Donocrates and the shaman ; Elevations ; Exorcising Pilate ; Calvaries of convenience ; The last Sacro Monte? -- Vertical empires, cerebral chasms: Delightful horror ; Vertical empires, cerebral chasms ; The seat of virtue ; Conquests ; Albert the Great ; Prospects of salvation -- Wood, water, rock: Arcadia redesigned: Et in Arcadia ego ; Primitives and pastorals ; Rudeness and confusion ; An Arcadia for the people : the Forest of Fontainebleau ; Arcadia under glass ; The wild, hairy huckleberry. Subjects; Landscape History. Human beings Influence on nature. Human beings Influence of environment. Art -- Psychology. Landscapes in art : pyschological aspects. Nature -- Influence on man. Man Influence on nature. Man Influence on environment Landscape Psychological aspects. Man Influence on nature. Culture Environment History. Landscape. Man Influence of environment. Civilization History. Landscapes History. Landscape assessment History. Human ecology History. Landscape assessment History. Human ecology History. National characteristics. Ethnology. Folklore. Human ecology. Forests and forestry. Nature Effect of human beings on. Human beings Effect of environment on. Landscape in art. History. Landscapes Symbolic aspects. Human ecology. Landscape assessment. Landscapes Symbolic aspects. Nature (Aesthetics). Landscapes in art. Nature (Aesthetics). Landscapes Visual arts. Nature Visual arts. Landscapes Literature. Civilization. Landscapes Psychological aspects. Art History - Landscape. Iconography. Art Theory. Landscapes Social aspects. Landscape painting. Man Influence of environment. Landscapes in art History. Landscape aesthetics. Aesthetics. Arts Special subjects Landscapes. Culture Related to Environment History. landscape art myth memory. Landscape Subject in art. Spaces : environmental psychology. Landscape Cultural history. Landscape Interpretation. Memory. Nature Influence National identity. Landscape. Man - Influence of environment. Art and nature. Landscape. Man - Influence of environment. Art and nature. Genres; History. Illustrated.
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