Landscape and memory /

By:

Schama, Simon

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 652 pages, 37 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0679402551

Subject(s):

Summary: 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. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality.

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	GF50 .S33 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16055001497

Signed on lining page "D.S. Richardson"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-621) and index.

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