{"product_id":"landscape-and-memory-isbn-9780679735120","title":"Landscape And Memory","description":"A \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine Best Books of the Year. In \u003cb\u003eLandscape and Memory, \u003c\/b\u003eaward-winning author Simon 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, as encyclopedic as \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bough\u003c\/i\u003e and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own \u003ci\u003eCitizens\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\"Marvelously rich and eloquent...Entertaining...Wonderfully learned and perceptive.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[Schama's] sinewy prose is everywhere enlivened by an illuminating wit and fueled by a relentless and joyful curiosity...You get the impression he will venture anywhere, intellectually speaking, in pursuit of his historical prey...He's a scintillating guide.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Fascinating...A potpourri of biography, art history and much else, skillfully blended and handsomely illustrated...Insightful.\" --\u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSimon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at  Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books,  including\u003ci\u003e The Embarrassment of Riches\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCitizens\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLandscape and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eRembrandt's Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, the History of Britain trilogy and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of the  Jews\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a contributing editor of the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003eand his  award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC  includes the fifteen-part \u003ci\u003eA History of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e and the eight-part,  Emmy-winning \u003ci\u003ePower of Art\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299763605733,"sku":"NP9780679735120","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679735120.jpg?v=1767731103","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/landscape-and-memory-isbn-9780679735120","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}