{"product_id":"what-is-landscape-paperback-by-john-r-stilgoe","title":"What Is Landscape? Paperback by John R. Stilgoe","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eThe MIT Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2018-04-20)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e280\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780262535281\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e362.88\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.47 x 13.82 x 1.8\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities that should be kept separate. But, as I learned in his book, the hollow storage area in a car driver's door was once a holster, the 'secure nesting place of a pistol.' I recommend you stow your copy there.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLandscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: \u003ci\u003elandschop\u003c\/i\u003e. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as \u003ci\u003elandskep\u003c\/i\u003e, which became\u003ci\u003e landskip\u003c\/i\u003e, then \u003ci\u003elandscape\u003c\/i\u003e, designating the surface of the earth shaped for human habitation. In \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Landscape?\u003c\/i\u003e Stilgoe maps the discovery of landscape by putting words to things, zeroing in on landscape's essence but also leading sideways expeditions through such sources as children's picture books, folklore, deeds, antique terminology, out-of-print dictionaries, and conversations with locals. (“What is that?” “Well, it's not really a slough, not really, it's a bayou...”) He offers a highly original, cogent, compact, gracefully written narrative lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to discoveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is Landscape? \u003c\/i\u003eis an invitation to walk, to notice, to ask: to see a sandcastle with a pinwheel at the beach and think of Dutch windmills—icons of triumph, markers of territory won from the sea; to walk in the woods and be amused by the Elizabethans' misuse of the Latin \u003ci\u003esilvaticus \u003c\/i\u003e(people of the woods) to coin the word \u003ci\u003esavages\u003c\/i\u003e; to see in a suburban front lawn a representation of the meadow of a medieval freehold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscovering landscape is good exercise for body and for mind. This book is an essential guide and companion to that exercise—to understanding, literally and figuratively, what landscape is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eJohn 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 \u003ci\u003eOld Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46552601329825,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780262535281","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780262535281.jpg?v=1781709810","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/what-is-landscape-paperback-by-john-r-stilgoe","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}