What Is Landscape? (MIT Press) - Softcover

Stilgoe, John R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262535289 ISBN 13: 9780262535281

Publisher: MIT Press, 2018

Synopsis

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.

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Review:

...[Stilgoe's] love of language and the land sees him ploughing through outdated and specialist dictionaries for our benefit, in this illuminating and entertaining book.... Reading this will have you thinking anew about words, as it breaks down both the language and the land that it may originate from or be attached to.

--Irish Times

[Y]ou... will find sentences that speak to you so personally as to feel thrilling, almost spookily so.

--The Wall Street Journal

Lovers of dictionaries and nature can rejoice in John Stilgoe's new book.

--The Paris Review

Stilgoe's book champions landscape studies as a discipline founded on curiosity and deep, associative thought, open to byways, discovery, and the occasional absurdity, rewarding for amateurs and seasoned practitioners alike.

--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

John R. Stilgoe is Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard University, where he has taught for forty years. He is the author of many books, most recently Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0262535289
• ISBN 13: 9780262535281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280