If anyone has this review, I'd like to see it. I read Schama's "Landscape
and Memory" and have a hard time with the idea that it is
"anti-environmental." I sure like to see the review if anyone can recall
where/when/who about it.
sb
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Subject: RE: Budiansky on "The Cult of the Wild
Maria Stella wrote
>
> This is a reply to Chris Purley that i have just read after a
> long storage time
> in my mailbox:
>
> > Actually I do recall a particularly vitriolic review of Simon
> > Schama's Landscape and Memory when it first appeared (though I
> thought it
> > uncontrovercial when I read it).
>
> Hi Chris, I have this book but not read it yet. What was the
> critique and why?
>
[snip]
CP: it was a few years back, but - if my memory serves me well (I am now
officially middle-aged - SOB!) the essential problem the reviewer had was
that humans were so integral to "nature", that any form of disassociation
between "natural" and "artificial" was a best "a problem". Schama - I
think - looks at the environmental history of European "nature" to
illustrate just how completely intertwined society was with it.
The reviewer seems to treat this as a form of (perhaps "anti-environmental")
heresy. Though I don't remember him using the words. It would be about
1996 or 97.
Chris P
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