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Title: Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John Stilgoe, John R. Stilgoe ISBN: 0-8027-7563-2 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Guide to interacting with the visual environment
Comment: Though you may get more detailed info on some of the specific subjects covered in this book, the point really is that if you get out on foot or bicycle you can begin to relearn visual acuity. It is not the end all be all guide to the visual landscape but rather a call to arms. Most people wonder at the keen perception demonstrated by observers in previous centuries, Stilgoe spells out why we have lost this and how we may regain it. His chapters are inticements and not academic. For proof of Stilgoe's total mastery of landscape history read any of his previous works. I can't think of a similar book on the market today that addresses the urban landcsape, the everyday and does not romanticize the wilderness "preserves" of the park service. Excellent. Don't read it unless you plan to get off your butt.
Rating: 5
Summary: Curt Raffi
Comment: John Stilgoe once again captures the imagination of the reader and encourages us to truly "see", not just "inhabit" the world that lies all around us.
As in his other works, he teaches us that history and archaeology are not just a part of musty museums, but of the every day built environment. There is a history behind everything that we come across in our daily lives and he wants us to take a second as a child might and think about the environment in which we live.
Having had the opportunity to take classes he taught at Harvard, this book enabled me to reenter his world of delicate insight and deep knowledge about what many in our society simply overlook or have forgotten.
If you like pop culture, history, walking down forgotten railroad beds or simply enjoy driving down unknown roads, Stilgoe will capture you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quick, wonderful read - filled with wonder!
Comment: A fantastic little book that will remind you of wonder, make you wonder at the world around you, and help you stop ignoring the variety and patterns to which we've become numb.
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Title: Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John Stilgoe ISBN: 0300030460 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Metropolitan Corridor by John Stilgoe ISBN: 0300034814 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1985 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Alongshore by John R. Stilgoe ISBN: 0300060173 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Lifeboat by John R. Stilgoe ISBN: 0813922216 Publisher: University Press of Virginia Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John R. Stilgoe ISBN: 0300048661 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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