Landscape and memory / Simon Schama

London : Fontana Press, 1996. 2nd edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 652 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Bibliography: pages 613-621. Contents: pt. 1. Wood: Prologue: The detour; ch. 1. In the relam of the Lithuanian bison: The royal beats of Baiowieza. Dt The last foray. Mortality, immortality; ch. 2. Der Holzweg: the track through the woods: The hunt for Germania. Blood in the forest. Arminius Redivivus; Waldsterleben; ch. 3. The liberties of the greenwwod: Green men. living in the woods: laws and outlaws. Hearts of oak and bulwarks of liberty? The pillars of Gaul. In extremis; ch. 4. The verdant cross: Grizzlies. Vegetable resurrection. Pathfinders. The verdant cross. Rabernacles. Volvos at the sepulchre -- pt. 2. Water: ch. 5. Streams of consciousness: The flow of myth. Circulation: arteries and mysteries. Holy confluences. Fons sapientiae. Nile brought to Tiber. Bernini and the four rivers; ch. 6. Bloodstreams: Sir Walter Ralegh loses his drift. The man in the brown paper boat. Power lines. The political theory of whitebait. Bodies of water. The waters of Isis: the Thames and the Nile -- pt. 3. Rock: ch. 7. Dinocrates and the shaman: altitude, beatitude, magnitude: The woman on Mount Rushmore. Donocrates and the shaman. Elevations. Exorcising Pilate. Calvaries of convenience. The last Sacro Monte?; ch. 8. Vertical empires, cerebral chasms: Delightful horror. Vertical empires, cerebral chasms. The seat of virtue. Conquests. Albert the Great. Prospects of salvation -- pt. 4. Wood, water, rock: ch. 9. Arcadia redesigned: Et in Arcadia ego. Primitives and pastorals. Rudeness and confusion. An Arcadia for the people: the Forest of Fontainebleau. Arcadia under glass. The wild, hairy huckleberry. Subjects: Landscapes History. Landscape assessment History. Human ecology History. Human ecology History. Arts Special subjects Landscapes. Genre: Bibliography.History. Illustrated.