Reviews for Landscape and memory

The average rating for Landscape and memory based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-29 00:00:00 Robert Panek [ in which case aloud, though whatever comical voices I might attempt, none could be as arch as Schama's own typical timbre (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2010-07-05 00:00:00 Sean Macke I read this a long time ago, and didn't find it easy to read, but oh! so very worthwhile when I finally made it to Europe and could see the places he was writing about. It really makes a difference when you are tramping through all those palaces when you understand the political purpose and symbolism behind the architecture and gardens. I summarised each chapter as I read, but I'm not going to regurgitate that here. What I remember is all sorts of odd things - here's just one example: how the British nearly lost their war with France because they were a (fledgling) democracy: the barons cut down the royal forests for timber, and then when they needed trees with long straight trunks to make masts with, there weren't any left. The French had no such problem because their king ruled like a god and all his forests were intact. Just writing this makes me want to read it again!