Landscape and Memory
Simon Schama. Vintage Books USA, $27.5 (672pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73512-0
Historian Schama explores the roles that have been played by landscapes in myth, art and culture. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 11/04/1996
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