num_pages: 672
description: One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the YearIn Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books
language: English
title: Landscape and Memory
titlecomplete: Landscape and Memory
genres: Environment, Art, Mythology, Philosophy, Cultural, Art History, Nature, Natural History, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1140
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Lionel Trilling Book Award
publisher: Vintage