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Article: Consuming the American Landscape.(Books Reviewed)(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2004
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CONSUMING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN GANIS, POEMS BY DR. STANLEY DIAMOND, INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT SOBIESZEK, AFTERWARD BY GEORGE F.
THOMPSON
STOCKPORT (ENGLAND): DEWI LEWIS PUBLISHING, 2004 /144PP./ $50 (HB)
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"[...] it has become increasingly obvious that the human conquest of nature is not the cause for celebration it once was, nor can we in any way or with any complacency view wilderness as a phenomenon isolated from the effects of our culture. Our expanding presence in and impact on the land has become so pervasive that the boundaries between nature and culture have all but been utterly ...