Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
0802713408
9780802713407
Description:
Outside Lies Magic is a book about the acute observation of ordinary things, about becoming aware in everyday places, about seeing in utterly new ways, about enriching your life unexpectedly.
For more than 20 years, John R. Stilgoe has developed and practiced the art of exploring the everyday world around us, where so much lies hidden just beneath the surface, offering uncommon knowledge if we but know what to look for. In this remarkable book, Stilgoe inspires us to become explorers on our own–on foot or on bicycle–and by so doing to reap the benefits of escaping, even temporarily, the traps of our programmed lives.
"Exploration encourages creativity, serendipity, invention," he writes. And while sharing his insights on how to explore, Stilgoe provides a fascinating pocket history of the American landscape, as striking in its originality as it is revealing. Stilgoe dissects our visual surroundings; his observations will transform the way you see everything. Through his eyes, an abandoned railroad line is redolent of history and future promise; front lawns recall our agrarian past; vacant lots hold cathedrals of potential.
From the electrical grid overhead to fences, malls, and main streets, Stilgoe offers a fresh understanding of the links and fractures in our society. After reading Outside Lies Magic, your world will never look the same again.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780802713407
Frequently Asked Questions about Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
The price for the book starts from $22.17 on Amazon and is available from 12 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 993,649 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
The highest price to sell back the Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places book within the last three months was on December 21 and it was $2.70.