SOURCE: “Tongues in Trees,” in Spectator, April 8, 1995, pp. 30, 32–33.

In the following review, Carr offers a positive assessment of Landscape and Memory.

How on earth does Professor Schama do it? To the despair of his more orthodox professional colleagues he has produced yet another blockbuster based on a superhuman mastery of a vast and varied array of specialist studies, ranging from the diet of Alpinists to hydraulic engineering. In his previous books on the Dutch Republic and the French Revolution, this master image-maker illumined a limited topic over a limited period of time. Landscape and Memory escapes such conventional confines to wander at large over space and time. We are swept from Tacitus to Goering; from the Nile temple at Phylae to the Piazza Navona in Rome; from whitebait dinners in London's East End to Neapolitan Caserta; from the ancient forests of Poland to London Zoo, where Queen Victoria...