Landscape and memory
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TextNew York A.A. Knopf. Distributed by Random House c1995Edition: 1st Am. edDescription: xi, 652p.; ill. (some col.), [37] p. of plates (some folded), col. maps; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0679402551
- GF50 .S33 1995
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Part 1 - Wood. 1 In the realm of the Lithuanian bison. 2 Der holzweg: the track through the woods. 3 The liberties of the greenwood. 4 The verdant cross. Part 2 - Water. 5 Streams of consciousness. 6 Bloodstreams. Part 3 - Rock. 7 Dinocrates and the shaman: altitude, beatitude, magnitude. 8 Vertical empires, cerebral chasms. Part 4 - Wood, water, rock. 9 Arcadia redesigned
'What do we see in our mind's eye when we talk about "nature"? Where do those images come from that haunt our minds--of the forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mountain? Are they myths, or were they once real places? Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins....'
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