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John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn’t only a rarity; he or she is suspect. Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America’s constructed landscapes. Stilgoe’s essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of "teen geography" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o’ lanterns becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural Midwest for the classic image of itself.At times breathtaking in their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe’s observations speak to specialists―whether they be artists, historians, or environmental designers―as well as to the common reader. Our landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent. The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.
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9780813923215 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: John Stilgoe is just looking around.
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9780813937533 | Univ of Virginia Pr, February 12, 2015, cover price $35.00
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9780312038892, titled "The Necessity of Empty Places" | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $9.95 | also contains The Necessity of Empty Places | About this edition: Essays discuss the open landscapes of Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming, and describe the feelings evoked by prairies and tundra
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9780813926681 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 15, 2007, cover price $35.00
A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience. By the author of River of Shadows and Wanderlust. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9780670034215 | Viking Pr, July 7, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.
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9780143037248 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 27, 2006), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A series of autobiographical essays draws on key moments and relationships in the author's life to explore such issues as trust, loss, and desire, in a volume that focuses on a central theme of losing oneself in the pleasures of experience.
Written with humor and affection, and enhanced with 81 of the author’s charming, historically accurate drawings, Our Vanishing Landscape takes readers on a leisurely sojourn through a bygone era. Leading us along rustic winding roads bordering fields and farmhouses, Eric Sloane captures our imaginations as he offers us a guided tour that evokes the America of pioneer times.This fascinating narrative describes networks of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes; tollgates, waterwheels, and icehouses; country inns and churches; ingenious and colorful road signs; and massive snow-rollers that packed snow into hard surfaces for great sleds. Here also are engrossing accounts of toll-road owners, sign painters, circus folk, and other entertainers of the period.Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful, warmly written book remains a genuine and permanent contribution to the field of Americana.
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9780844667317 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, February 1, 1989, cover price $19.80 | About this edition: Written with humor and affection, and enhanced with 81 of the author’s charming, historically accurate drawings, Our Vanishing Landscape takes readers on a leisurely sojourn through a bygone era.
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9780486436784 | Dover Pubns, October 20, 2004, cover price $10.95
9780345332165 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1985), cover price $8.00
Lush full-color photography combines with essays from some of America's leading nature writers in an evocative celebration of America's natural wonders, with contributions from Barry Lopez, Edward Hoagland, Art Wolfe, Scott Russell Sanders, George Huey, Linda Hogan, and others. 20,000 first printing.
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9780792279402 | Natl Geographic Society, October 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Full-color photography combines with essays from some of America's leading nature writers in a celebration of America's natural wonders.
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9780792279389 | Natl Geographic Society, October 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Full-color photography combines with essays from some of America's leading nature writers in a celebration of America's natural wonders.
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9781579582296 | Routledge, February 1, 2000, cover price $115.00
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9781853311796 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $39.95
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9781559634366 | Island Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Argues that the American landscape has shaped our culture, is one of the bases of our national pride, and is key to our future wellbeing
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9780312021986 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the open landscapes of Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming, and describe the feelings evoked by prairies and tundra
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9781571312235 | Anv edition (Milkweed Editions, March 1, 1999), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the open landscapes of Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming, and describe the feelings evoked by prairies and tundra
9780312038892 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $9.95 | also contains Ethical Approaches in Modern German-Language Literature and Culture | About this edition: Essays discuss the open landscapes of Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming, and describe the feelings evoked by prairies and tundra
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9780226109466 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1994, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: An urban affairs specialist examines how ordinary American places come to be, and come to be labeled as, good and bad neighborhoods, drug scenes, ghost towns, 'the boondocks,' and growth areas, with the help of scores of photographs.
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9780226109497 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 22, 1998), cover price $32.00
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9780871563811 | Sierra Club Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Novelists, poets, and essayists share their personal thoughts on the world that surrounds them, providing a celebration of diverse landscapes in works by W.
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9781569248522 | Reprint edition (Marlowe & Co, May 1, 1995), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Rothwell
In this collection of specially commissioned essays, nineteen of America's leading writers, artists, and scholars come together to ponder the question "What is landscape?" Recognizing that no one person or discipline can possibly provide the whole answer, George Thompson has chosen a range of viewpoints that, in his words, "attempts to make links between art and science, history and geography, photography and literature, a land ethic and environmental design, management, and planning." Landscape in America is the first book to explore the idea of landscape and place in such a broad-ranging way. Designed for the uncommon "common reader, " it offers a distinctively American perspective on what landscape is, what it means, and what it represents that will be compelling to the widest possible audience.
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9780292781351 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $55.00
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9780292781368 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this collection of specially commissioned essays, nineteen of America's leading writers, artists, and scholars come together to ponder the question "What is landscape?
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9780877454847 | Univ of Iowa Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Book by Zelinsky, Wilbur
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9780877454830 | Univ of Iowa Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $30.00
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9780870448041 | Natl Geographic Society, September 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A region-by-region pictorial tour of the fifty states of America furnishes nine impressionistic, personal essays that evoke the flavor of the diverse regions of the country
Product Description: This colllection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life influenced, and continue to influence, American cultural history...read more
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9780813913964 | Univ of Virginia Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This colllection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life influenced, and continue to influence, American cultural history.
9780835718998 | Umi Research Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $143.90 | About this edition: This colllection of essays, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize as the best folklore book of 1990, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in how the humble devices and relics of everyday American life influenced, and continue to influence, American cultural history.
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9781557784919 | Marlowe & Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Selections from Thoreau's journals evoke the natural beauty of the landscape near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, and present his thoughts on the preservation of the environment
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