Overview
The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained…
The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained…‘Landscape and Memory’ is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us – rivers, mountains, forests – the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs.This is not a conventional history book, but a book that builds up its argument by a series of poetic stories and impressions which cumulatively have the effect of a great novel. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – at the end of this wonderful book we understand where these ideas have come from, why they are so compelling and how they still lie all around us.
- | Author: Simon Schama
- | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- | Publication Date: Mar 18, 1996
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780006863489
- | ISBN-10: 0006863485
