Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
- ISBN-10
- 0300071167
- ISBN-13
- 9780300071160
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Author
- John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Description
This anthology of the author's writings on the American landscape, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well known writings and articles that were originally published unsigned or under pseudonyms.
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