Prairie Passage CB - Hardcover

RANNEY

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252024117 ISBN 13: 9780252024115

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1998

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Reseña del editor:

Prairie Passage celebrates the remarkable ninety-seven-mile water highway known as the Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848 and closed in 1933, that helped turn the muddy settlement of Chicago into the most important city in the Midwest. The photographs in Prairie Passage, which provide a fresh perspective on how we use and live on the land, are complemented by historical images and essays that document how people have traveled through, settled, and altered the region, as well as by a prologue that puts the Canal Corridor in a national context of regional conservation movements and an epilogue that offers a personal statement on the resonance of special places for those who care about the American landscape.

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In Prairie Passage, the canal's 150(th) anniversary is commemorated in some 250 stunning photographs, many of them by the renowned Edward Ranney, with a preface from the always fascinating William Least Heat-Moon. Tony Hiss's text celebrates the saga of the once mighty waterway and characterizes the development of the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor over the past fifteen years as indicative of how America has come of age and how it is renewing itself "by settling down and appreciating it".The book is planned for release as part of the sesquicentennial observance of the canal, to begin April 19, 1998, with an exhibit of Ranney's photographs and earlier images of the area, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Subsequent features of the observance will include installation of a portion of the exhibit at the Illinois State Museum's Lockport Gallery in July 1998 and a smaller traveling exhibit in towns throughout the canal corridor.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0252024117
• ISBN 13: 9780252024115
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224