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1 review
John R. Stilgoe

University of Virginia Press, 2007

Seeing for the first time
Lifeboat, like anything by John Stilgoe, will make you re-examine your views of the past, present, and perhaps even everyday sights and sites you pass routinely without regard.

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
John R. Stilgoe

Yale University Press, 1985

Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
John R. Stilgoe

Yale University Press, 1990

Landscape And Images
John R. Stilgoe

University of Virginia Press, 2005

John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn't only a rarity; he or she is ...

Alongshore
John R. Stilgoe

Yale University Press, 1996

In this enchanting book, John R. Stilgoe takes us on a tour of the seacoast, evoking its sights, sounds, and textures, and showing how it illuminates issues of landscape and American culture. Telling fascinating stories of fishing boats and lighthouses, wharfs and piers, quicksand and buried treasures, this book is ideal beach reading and a guidebook for anyone intrigued by the shore.

Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places

17 reviews
John R. Stilgoe, John Stilgoe

Walker & Company, 1999

Loved This Book
Outside Lies Magic is like no other book I've read. Written in a flowing, sensuous style, it provides a new way to view the world. Read it, and your life will change

Shallow Water Dictionary

7 reviews
John Stilgoe, John R. Stilgoe

Princeton Architectural Press, 2003

It's about seeing
Many who read this will miss the main point. Of course it's about words, but it's more about "seeing" as in "I see." Frost said that he wrote as he wrote so that the wrong people wouldn't get it and be saved. This book has some of that in it. Don't let its almost being a dictionary or the title fool you. John Stilgoe gives it away on page 54 where he says,"Landscape-or seascape-that lacks ...

Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape

3 reviews
John R. Stilgoe

University of Virginia Press, 2007

Full of info not found elsewhere
Stilgoe's book is very timely and current. Most railroad writing is backward-looking nostalgia. This is a book about the future, but it finds and brings to light rail successes of the past: Railway Mail Service, Express, frequent passenger service to small towns. Most Americans are oblivious to transportation issues, especially rail. Few give any thought as to how their UPS packages make it ...

Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845

1 review
John R. Stilgoe

Yale University Press, 1983

Scholarly History of the American Landscape
This groundbreaking 1982 work by Harvard landscape scholar John Stilgoe remains a standard text for cultural geographers, landscape historians and others interested in historic patterns of development throughout this country. It still has not been equalled in its depth or scope. Stilgoe weaves together an astounding amount of historical detail in a scholarly yet readable style that offers ...

The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore; In New England

1 review
W. H. Bunting

Tilbury House Publishers, 2006

An impressive compilation
Compiled with brief commentaries by W. H. Bunting, "The Camera's Coast: Historic Images Of Ship And Shore In New England" is an impressive compilation of historic period photographs of the ships, communities, industries, advertisements, and people along the coastline of New England in the 19th and early 20th century. An informative introduction by John R. Stilgoe provides a useful context in ...

The Scenic Daguerreotype: Romanticism and Early Photography

University Of Iowa Press, 1995

Imagine a "gold and mercury image on a layer of silver bonded to copper," an all-metal photographic process that poisoned some its practitioners. Imagine an era long before a surfeit of images began to dull the viewer, when a visual reality--not a virtual one--captivated the imagination. The daguerreotype process is not only "one of the great artistic vehicles for rendering the human face," says John Wood, but an equally potent and elegant ...

Train Time
John R. Stilgoe

Univ of Virginia Pr, 2007

Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature
John R. Stilgoe, III Ellwood C. Parry, ...

Albany Institute of History and Art, 1993

Provides a new look at the founder of the Hudson River School of American landscape painting.

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