A Land Between
Owens Valley, California
$86.99
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2000
Summary
A landscape history, this text explores the central idea of how people’s preconceptions and perceptions of a place - in this case, Owen’s Valley - influence their interventions on the land. Rebecca Fish Ewan draws on primary sources, oral histories and conversations, offering a story that reaches beyond the tale of water wars with Los Angeles. The poetic essays, illustrated with historical images and Ewan’s own photographs of the region, provide a multifaceted perspective on the land, the his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780801864612 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0801864615 |
| Author: | Rebecca Fish Ewan |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2000 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 178mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Center Books on Space, Place, and Time |
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Critics Review
It’s a story well told, interwoven with the author’s personal history and some fictional accounts based on the lives of those who struggled to wrest a living out of the high desert… It contains fresh insights and perspectives that a landscape architect brings to the subject… A nice size to carry along with you as you create you own memories of a land between. – Robert Pavlik California Historical Review A story well told, interwoven with the author’s personal history and some fictional accounts based on the lives of those who struggled to wrest a living out of the high desert… The book is dotted with black-and-white photographs, historic and contemporary, some of which are quite beautiful. – Robert Pavlik California History Action
About The Author
Rebecca Fish Ewan
Rebecca Fish Ewan is an assistant professor in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University.
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