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Art by Simon Schama
$10.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of ...Show more
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to i ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
$48.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
$69.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Hang-Ups : Essays on painting (mostly) by Simon Schama
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst other publications, The New Yorker, contains pieces on artists as diverse as David Hockney, Rembrandt, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic - a country once rich enough to be called the ...Show more
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
$50.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies
A masterful portrait of one of the most celebrated painters of all time This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our imagination. Interweaving the few known facts of the Dutch master's life with fully ill ...Show more
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
$33.00 NZD
Category: World History
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble - Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
A treasure trove of Schama's writing with subjects ranging from cookery to Barack Obama.