Landscape And Memory
One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year
In 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 ...
One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year
In 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
西蒙•沙玛（1945— ），英国历史学家，艺术史学家，先后在剑桥大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学和哥伦比亚大学历史系任教，并担任BBC纪录片解说，《纽约客》文艺评论员。编写并主持过系列纪录片《英国史》、《艺术的力量》、《美国的未来》，曾获诸多嘉誉，包括1977年以《爱国者和解放者》获沃夫森历史奖，1987年以《财富的窘境：黄金时代荷兰文明的一种解释》获“《纽约时报》年度最佳图书”，1996年以《风景与记忆》获W.H.史密斯文学奖,2006年以《乱世交汇：英国、奴隶与美国革命》（Rough Crossings）获“全美书评人协会奖”。著作还包括《伦勃朗的眼睛》、《公民们，法国大革命编年史》、《死亡的确定性》等。