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Thirtyfour Campgrounds (MIT Press)
Martin Hogue
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Description for Thirtyfour Campgrounds (MIT Press)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6500 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB; AJC; WSZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 290 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1722.
A photographic survey of nearly 6,500 American campsites that maps subtle differences within the seemingly identical. Camping can make us feel a powerful connection to nature and our rugged backwoods forebears. Campers once confronted the elemental facts of life, but now, the millions of Americans taking to the road on camping trips are more likely to drive to a campground, hook up service conduits, connect to WiFi, drop their awnings, and set out patio chairs. It is as if, Martin Hogue observes, each campsite functions as a stage upon which campers perform a series of ritualized activities ... Read more
A photographic survey of nearly 6,500 American campsites that maps subtle differences within the seemingly identical. Camping can make us feel a powerful connection to nature and our rugged backwoods forebears. Campers once confronted the elemental facts of life, but now, the millions of Americans taking to the road on camping trips are more likely to drive to a campground, hook up service conduits, connect to WiFi, drop their awnings, and set out patio chairs. It is as if, Martin Hogue observes, each campsite functions as a stage upon which campers perform a series of ritualized activities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The MIT Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262035002
SKU
V9780262035002
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99-15
About Martin Hogue
Martin Hogue teaches landscape architecture in the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York, Syracuse.
Reviews for Thirtyfour Campgrounds (MIT Press)
A landscape architect meticulously depicts the intersection of Americans' desire to commune with nature with their devotion to their stuff-and hence the rituals of parking trailers, service hook-ups (today including WiFi), setting out lawn chairs, and more. Forget about traveling light. -Harvard Magazine The images in Thirtyfour Campgrounds, supported by Hogue's timeline of diagrams, show how we've ... Read more