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Landscape and Memory, by Simon Schama (Knopf, 652 pp., $40)

FEEL LIKE hugging a tree? Want to take the family to Yellowstone National Park this summer, or idle with them in a Roman piazza admiring the play of water in a Bernini fountain? What impels us to do such things, and what kind of satisfaction do we expect from them? These are among the questions Simon Schama poses, and answers brilliantly, in his new book, which might better have been called Landscape into Memory.

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Landscape and Memory, by Simon Schama (Knopf, 652 pp., $40)

FEEL LIKE hugging a tree? Want to take the family to Yellowstone National Park this summer, or idle with them in a Roman piazza admiring the play of water in a Bernini fountain? What impels us to do such things, and what kind of satisfaction do we expect from them? These are among the questions Simon Schama poses, and answers brilliantly, in his new book, which might better have been called Landscape into Memory.