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Genre/Form: | Descripciones y viajes Usos y costumbres |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Brinckerhoff Jackson |
ISBN: | 9780300063974 0300063970 0300060025 9780300060027 |
OCLC Number: | 861663228 |
Description: | IX, 212 p. : il ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Part 1 Southwest: seeing New Mexico; Pueblo dwellings and our own; church or plaza; mobile home on the range. Part 2 Environment: beyond wilderness; the past and future park; in favour of trees; anthophobia. Part 3 Towns and cars: the accessible landscape; the garage as workplace; looking into automobiles; truck city; the timing of towns. |
Responsibility: | John Birnckerhoff Jackson. |
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"Mr. Jackson is at all times acutely observant and down to earth. This is one of the most interesting essay collections I have read in years, and it deserves a wide audience."-Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal"Mr. Jackson is the contemplative explorer, distilling his trenchant observations in limpid, conversational prose."-Suzanne Stephens, New York Times Book ReviewWinner of the 1994 Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the best collection of essays published in 1994 given by the PEN American Center Read more...

