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Prairie Passage celebrates the remarkable ninety-seven-mile water highway known as the Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848 and closed in 1933, that helped turn the muddy settlement of Chicago into the most important city in the Midwest. The photographs in Prairie Passage, which provide a fresh perspective on how we use and live on the land, are complemented by historical images and essays that document how people have traveled through, settled, and altered the region, as well as by a prologue that puts the Canal Corridor in a national context of regional conservation movements and an epilogue that offers a personal statement on the resonance of special places for those who care about the American landscape.
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"Landscape photographer Ranney has produced a fine collection celebrating a vital American transportation route and the project to preserve its historic sites and natural beauty. His penetrating black-and-white photographs along the I&M Canal Corridor illuminate striking contrasts in the cultural geography of the area connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River. [His] images...gently urge readers to look closer at seemingly ordinary places, whose hidden histories can enrich the present. Harris's essays emphasize the tremendous economic impact that a 97-mile shipping highway had on the region and the nation, including its challenge to the Erie Canal and its role in transforming Chicago from a hamlet into a thriving city. The book's ultimate message is that past and present may co-exist harmoniously, as the 450-square-mile project known as the I&M Canal National Heritage Corridor has proved. Where commercial water traffic once dominated, children now play ice hockey; converted towpaths provide hiking and bicycling trails. The words and pictures offer constant reminders that certain places can inspire or serve as healing forces, and perhaps more important, that routes and treks--ways of reaching places--have greatly influenced a collective American identity."
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Prairie Passage : The Illinois and Michigan Canal Corridor
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Edward Ranney (illustrator). First Edition, 1st printing. A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight, collector-worthy copy sans flaws. "Prairie Passage" celebrates this remarkable ninety-seven miles of water highway that helped to turn the muddy settlement of Chicago, at the canal's eastern end, into the most important city in the Midwest." P ROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in archival black and white photography (many full page) with accompanying descriptive captions. 216 pages. LBCMC4. Seller Inventory # 019159
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 216 pages. Prologue by Tony Hiss. Essays by Emily J. Harris. Epilogue by William Least Heat-Moon. A terrific collection of black and white images by Edward Ranney. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Ranney on the title page and also signed and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper and additionally signed there as well by Emily Harris. Signed. Seller Inventory # 166218
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