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Title: Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy by John W. Simpson ISBN: 0-520-21364-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.47 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: very wordy
Comment: The book has some good content, but the auther him-haws around. I enjoy a good book that can get to the point and drive it home. This book does not do that. It jumps around a lot and is hard to follow in places. I wouldn't recommend this book to other readers.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Revelation
Comment: I am not a 'landscaper' in the grand or even minimal sense (tending to let my own backyard become overgrown), but I do have a layman's interest in history. Perhaps for those reasons I found 'Visions of Paradise' to be an enthralling introduction to the history of our American landscape. Simpson was able to engage my interest quickly with his obvious feeling for and sensitivity to our culture's rather short-sighted treatment of the natural landscape. As a native midwesterner I was particularly interested in his regional references but really found the entire volume to be captivating. He truly helped me to understand the national landscape as 'ours' in a collective sense. For the first time I have an informed appreciation of our land and believe that I have a role, however small, in its future. I will never be able to take a trip by car or plane in the same way again - Simpson's book has helped me understand the importance of my examining the nuances of all parts of our landscape, and being able to take a stronger position regarding its appropriate uses (even my own yard, which I am now cultivating more carefuly).
Rating: 5
Summary: Quick, but not a light read,....
Comment: ..it's a great book. The personal anecdotes will speed you through a book more scholarly than it first appears. With the clean slate that North America presented the world upon it's discovery, it's amazing how well it's held up, considering all the different hands on the chalk!
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Title: Yearning for the Land : A Search for the Importance of Place by John W. Simpson ISBN: 037542086X Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Yearning for the Land : A Search for Homeland in Scotland and America by John W. Simpson ISBN: 0375725474 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Being in the World: An Environmental Reader for Writers by Scott Slovic, Terrell Dixon ISBN: 0024117617 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 11 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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