Isbn: 9780679402558 - landscape and memory (26 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. 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. 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 The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens. 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.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. 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. 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 The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens. 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover 1995 edition. Dust jacket and boards in near fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with previous seller sticker on back panel.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. first edition as stated. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, corners bumped. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, mild edge wear. Hist. Stax.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. xi, 652pp. Illustrated. Page edges lightly foxed and binding a touch loose but sound, very good or better in a lightly worn, near fine dust jacket with light internal foxing.

Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [1], 652, [6] p. Illustrations (some in color). Endpaper maps. Notes. A Bibliographic Guide. Index. Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specializing in art history, Dutch history, and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University, New York. He first came to popular public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. In the United Kingdom, he is perhaps best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain broadcast between 2000 and 2002. He became a Fellow and Director of Studies in History, and at Oxford, where he was made a Fellow of Brasenose College in 1976, specialising in the French Revolution. At this time, Schama wrote his first book, Patriots and Liberators, which won the Wolfson History Prize. The book focused on the effect of the Patriot revolution in the Netherlands, and its aftermath. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling. First edition. First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.…

Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon. Color/BW illustrations, as much a historical survey of the symbolism of landscape in the fine arts as a study in human ecology. Remainder mark; curled wraps and corner bends with some scuffing, fine interior and binding. Large format paperback, 652 pages. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Schama's magisterial survey. pp652. endpaper maps. Illus. Signed on title page; looks like a bookstore signing. DW brodarted. Small 4to. Heavy. Signed by Author(s).