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Book SynopsisRebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit's thinking and offers you a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.
Table of ContentsList of Photographs Introduction: Prisons and Paradises 1. Uneven Terrain: The West The Red Lands The Postmodern Old West, or the Precession of Cowboys and Indians The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence: Creating, Revising, and Recognizing Native American Monuments The Garden of Merging Paths 2. Borders and Crossers A Route in the Shape of a Question Thirty-Nine Steps Across the Border and Back Nonconforming Uses: Teddy Cruz on Both Sides of the Border 3. Trouble Below: Mining, Water, and Nuclear Waste The Price of Gold, the Value of Water Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Poison Pictures 4. Reaching for the Sky Excavating the Sky Drawing the Constellations Hugging the Shadows Justice by Moonlight 5. Landscapes of Resistance and Repression Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami Jailbirds I Have Loves Making It Home: Travels outside the Fear Economy Mirror in the Street Liberation Conspiracies Sontag and Tsunami 6. Gardens and Wildernesses Every Corner Is Alive: Eliot Porter as an Environmentalist and an Artist The Botanical Circus, or Adventures in American Gardening A Murder of Ravens: On Globalized Species 7. Women's Place Tangled Banks and Clear-Cut Examples Seven Stepping Stones down the Primrose Path: A Talk at a Conference on Landscape and Gender Other Daughters, Other American Revolutions 8. Infernal Museums California Comedy, or Surfing with Dante The Wal-Mart Biennale The Silence of the Lambswool Cardigans Locked Horns 9. City at the End of the World The Orbits of Earthly Bodies San Francisco: The Metamorphosis The Heart of the City The Ruins of Memory Gaping Questions Coda: The Pacific Seashell to Ear Acknowledgments Notes Permissions Index
