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It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate.-- New York Review of Books.
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.
The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama\'s own Citizens .
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.
In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature.
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