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Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780813937533
ISBN 10: 0813937531
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 28 February 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Landscape and Images is a rich and fascinating book. John Stilgoe is a wonderful writer, and here he distills a lifetime of insights based on his acute observations of and passionate caring for North America's landscapes, and the vast changes we have made in them over the past few centuries. Landscape and Images will leave lasting images in readers' minds, and give us the skills to make wiser changes in the century ahead.--Tony Hiss, author of The Experience of Place
<i>Landscape and Images</i> is a rich and fascinating book. John Stilgoe is a wonderful writer, and here he distills a lifetime of insights based on his acute observations of and passionate caring for North America's landscapes, and the vast changes we have made in them over the past few centuries. <i>Landscape and Images</i> will leave lasting images in readers' minds, and give us the skills to make wiser changes in the century ahead.</p>--Tony Hiss, author of <i>The Experience of Place</i>
It is impossible to read Lifeboat without corning to understand and admire Stilgoe's dedication to a self-reliance grounded in knowledge. And in Stilgoe's probing account of how and why people have--or do not have--disasters, the lifeboat is a perfect match for that persona. Landscape and Images is a rich and fascinating book. John Stilgoe is a wonderful writer, and here he distills a lifetime of insights based on his acute observations of and passionate caring for North America's landscapes, and the vast changes we have made in them over the past few centuries. Landscape and Images will leave lasting images in readers' minds, and give us the skills to make wiser changes in the century ahead.--Tony Hiss, author of The Experience of Place Landscape and Images is a rich and fascinating book. John Stilgoe is a wonderful writer, and here he distills a lifetime of insights based on his acute observations of and passionate caring for North America's landscapes, and the vast changes we have made in them over the past few centuries. Landscape and Images will leave lasting images in readers' minds, and give us the skills to make wiser changes in the century ahead.--Tony Hiss, author of The Experience of Place Landscape and Images is arich and fascinating book. John Stilgoe is a wonderful writer, and here he distillsa lifetime of insights based on his acute observations of and passionate caring forNorth America's landscapes, and the vast changes we have made in them over the pastfew centuries. Landscape and Images will leavelasting images in readers' minds, and give us the skills to make wiser changes inthe century ahead.--Tony Hiss, author of The Experience ofPlace
Author Information
John R. Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, USA, is the author of Outside Lies Magic, Lifeboat (Virginia), and Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape (Virginia).
