ACROSS THE OPEN FIELD: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes.
Pp. xiv+352, pictorial double title page printed in red & black, plus numerous text illustrations (several full or double page), endpaper maps, suggestions for further reading, index; narrow demy 4to; boards a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, lightly soiled; University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2000. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series. *'The author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names and recent histories of train lines and automobile routes' [wrapper blurb]. Item #147522
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