{"product_id":"notes-on-a-shared-landscape-making-sense-of-the-american-west-hardcover","title":"Notes on a Shared Landscape: Making Sense of the American West - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Bayles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his best-selling \u003ci\u003eArt and Fear\u003c\/i\u003e, David Bayles (with Ted Orland) closely examined personal and autobiographical episodes in search of general truths about artmaking. Bayles now turns that same attention to his native West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen European Americans \"discovered\" the American West, they fell in love with the resplendent landscape. The love affair and its congenital flaws persists to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBayles writes: \". . . the question is why my people bungled our occupation of the West so badly when no one really wanted to, when there was every chance to get it right, when voices of caution were constantly raised, when what needed to be done was frequently obvious, and when, occasionally, we did get it right (think: National Parks).\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on a Shared Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e engages the issues that make the West the West--widely ranging over the autobiographical and the cultural, the ecological and the epistemological, the cow and the potato. This is an intensely personal book, and though the Western library is huge, there is not another book like it. Much of the text unfolds in Yellowstone, where Bayles writes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Lamar valley of the Yellowstone, beaver gnaw the trunks of cottonwoods, elk browse their leaves. The shadows are long, even in summer. Even so, it is just another place. In it, just as elsewhere, we see the marks of our own hands faintly because we don't have to know very much about the land we live in, because we are equally a part of and apart from nature, and because there is hardly any moment when humans are more delusional than when self recognition is required.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBestselling author of Art \u0026amp; Fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 10.28 x 8.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772830286112,"sku":"9780961454746","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9c1bfff56f0fce7ecb217418089c25bb.webp?v=1780415225","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/notes-on-a-shared-landscape-making-sense-of-the-american-west-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}