Embarrassment of Riches

This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen.

Reviews

‘Simon Schama writes with grace and wit, and his enthusiasms are contagious.’ Anita Brookner
‘Schama is one of the few historians writing today who can recreate the mentalité of another culture.’ Jonathan Miller
‘One reads it all with mounting enjoyment and at the end one’s sense of Dutch civilisation in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen is not just salted and enriched – but remade.’ Robert Hughes
‘This is history on the grand scale, and like all generously conceived historical works leaves us reflecting about the present as well as the past.’ John Gross, New York Times
‘Seldom has a people opened its doors so wide. A performance on the epic scale.’ Independent