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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN: | 9780520251090 0520251091 9780520256569 0520256565 |
| OCLC Number: | 74568924 |
| Description: | xii, 416 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Prisons and paradises -- [pt.] 1: Uneven terrain : the West. The red lands ; The postmodern Old West, or, The precession of cowboys and Indians ; The struggle of dawning intelligence : creating, revising, and recognizing Native American monuments ; The garden of merging paths -- [pt.] 2: Borders and crossers. A route in the shape of a question ; Thirty-nine steps across the border and back ; Nonconforming uses : Teddy Cruz on both sides of the border -- [pt.] 3: Trouble below : mining, water, and nuclear waste. The price of gold, the value of water ; Meanwhile, back at the ranch ; Poison pictures -- [pt.] 4: Reaching for the sky. Excavating the sky ; Drawing the constellations ; Hugging the shadows ; Justice by moonlight -- [pt.] 5: Landscapes of resistance and repression. Fragments of the future : the FTAA in Miami ; Jailbirds I have loved ; Making it home : travels outside the fear economy ; Mirror in the street ; Liberation conspiracies ; Sontag and tsunami -- [pt.] 6: Gardens and wildernesses. Every corner is alive : Eliot Porter as an environmentalist and an artist ; The botanical circus, or, Adventures in American gardening ; A murder of ravens : on globalized species -- [pt.] 7: Women's place. Tangled banks and clearcut examples ; Seven stepping stones down the primrose path : a talk at a conference on landscape and gender ; Other daughters, other American revolutions -- [pt.] 8: Infernal museums. California comedy, or, Surfing with Dante ; The Wal-Mart biennale ; The silence of the lambswool cardigans ; Locked horns -- [pt.] 9: City at the end of the world. The orbits of earthly bodies ; San Francisco : the metamorphosis ; The heart of the city ; The ruins of memory ; Gaping questions -- Coda: The Pacific. Seashell to ear. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca Solnit. |
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Abstract:
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit's thinking and offers you a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.
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