Landscape and Memory

by Simon Schama

The brilliant historian, art critic, and cultural essayist Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; 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.

"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate." —The New York Review of Books

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