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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “THIS BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION”
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Inscribed
- No
- Subjects
- Travel
- Personalized
- No
- Signed
- Yes
- Special Attributes
- FLAT SIGNED
- ISBN
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819572810
ISBN-13
9780819572813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111388375
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hidden in Plain Sight : a Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Geography, United States / Northeast / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science
Book Series
Garnet Bks.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-049405
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones., "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."-Connecticut Explored, "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."-- Connecticut Explored "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."-- Connecticut Explored "David Leff believes that some of the most wondrous pleasures we can experience are 'right out our back door,' if we'll only be open to exploration. 'The more we explore our home ground,' he told me, 'the more we'll find.' In his book, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut, Leff encourages us to do this as he writes about the diners, drive-in movie theaters, used bookstores, town greens and other delights he has encountered."--Randall Beach, New Haven Register, "Zinkies and Gungywamp, barns and brownstone pits, Leff's meditative exploration inveigles and delights."--John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University "You think you know Connecticut? Think again. The inquisitive mind of the 'deep traveler' sees much more than in 'plain sight.' After reading this book, you will explore our state differently. Though the eyes of the 'deep traveler,' things we experience every day driving and hiking through Connecticut, from roadside rock art to old growth forests, take on new meaning. My recommendation: Hop onboard and take the journey!""--Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archaeologist "The Connecticut places--some world famous, some obscure--that David K. Leff lovingly explores in Hidden in Plain Sight are fascinating. Even more revelatory is how he gets there. Invariably putting his senses on high alert, he teases out truths 'hidden in the middle of everywhere.' ""--Tony Hiss, author of In Motion: The Experience of Travel "Zinkies and Gungywamp, barns and brownstone pits, Leff's meditative exploration inveigles and delights."--John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University, "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."ÑConnecticut Explored, "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."-- Connecticut Explored "Zinkies and Gungywamp, barns and brownstone pits, Leff's meditative exploration inveigles and delights."--John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University "The Connecticut places--some world famous, some obscure--that David K. Leff lovingly explores in Hidden in Plain Sight are fascinating. Even more revelatory is how he gets there. Invariably putting his senses on high alert, he teases out truths 'hidden in the middle of everywhere.' "--Tony Hiss, author of In Motion: The Experience of Travel "You think you know Connecticut? Think again. The inquisitive mind of the 'deep traveler' sees much more than in 'plain sight.' After reading this book, you will explore our state differently. Though the eyes of the 'deep traveler,' things we experience every day driving and hiking through Connecticut, from roadside rock art to old growth forests, take on new meaning. My recommendation: Hop onboard and take the journey!"--Nicholas F. Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archaeologist "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."-- Connecticut Explored "David Leff believes that some of the most wondrous pleasures we can experience are 'right out our back door,' if we'll only be open to exploration. 'The more we explore our home ground,' he told me, 'the more we'll find.' In his book, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut, Leff encourages us to do this as he writes about the diners, drive-in movie theaters, used bookstores, town greens and other delights he has encountered."--Randall Beach, New Haven Register, "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."- Connecticut Explored, "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."--Connecticut Explored, "The essays and photographs take readers on a point-by-point journey to reveal the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries old milestones."-- Connecticut Explored "David Leff believes that some of the most wondrous pleasures we can experience are 'right out our back door,' if we'll only be open to exploration. 'The more we explore our home ground,' he told me, 'the more we'll find.' In his book, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Deep Traveler Explores Connecticut, Leff encourages us to do this as he writes about the diners, drive-in movie theaters, used bookstores, town greens and other delights he has encountered."--Randall Beach, New Haven Register
Dewey Decimal
917.46/04
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Prologue to Deep Travel: The Merritt Parkway ALONG THE ROADSIDE Counting Miles in Four Centuries: Old Milestones * What's in a Name?: Reading Street Signs Seeing through Time: Roadcuts Painted Ledges: Roadside Rock Art Last Picture Shows: Drive-In Theaters A Cool Drink of Water: Roadside Springs A Great Good Place: Diners PLACES WE BUILD A Most Enduring Harvest: Quarries The People's Castles: Stone Lookouts King of Homes: Yankee Castles A Thousand Uses: Quonset Huts The Shape of Futures Past: Octagon Houses Practical, Adaptable, and Disappearing: Barns The Spirit of Community: Camp Meetings Exploring Gasoline Alley: Racetracks SEEING GREEN: TREES, CULTURE, AND AGRICULTURE A Place for Common Ground: Town Greens Heart of Nowhere: Connecticut's Most Remote Place The Measure of a State: Connecticut's Highest Point(s) Big Trees: Old-Growth Forests A Sacred Grove: Hope for the Chestnut Forest The Perfect Street Tree: A Few Good Elms Inventing New England Autumn: Leaf Peeping A Most Useful Tree: Season of the Witch Hazel Tasting the Landscape: Cider Mills A Community Harvest: Agricultural Fairs GHOST TOWNS AND GRAVEYARDS Forgotten but Not Gone: Ghost Towns Ghost Streets and Routes Less Taken: Abandoned Roads Beneath the Lakes: Lost Worlds Watery Ghosts of Manufacturing: Mill Ponds Steeped in Mystery: Gungywamp Space-Age Ghosts: Nike Missile Sites Perpetual Care Isn't Forever: Neglected Graveyards Haunting Stones of Metal: Zinc Grave Markers Trash Talk: Landfills and Landscape THROUGH ARTISTS' EYES Reinventing the Colonial Landscape: Wallace Nutting A Fresh Way of Looking: The Hudson River School In a State of Plein Air: Artists Outdoors Where the Landscape Is Art: Weir Farm Poetic Space: James Merrill's Apartment Landscape and the Written Word: Nature Writers Buy the Book: Used Bookstores Epilogue to Further Discovery: The New England Trail Just the Right Place: An Explorer's Guide Connecticut's Hidden Places: Map Key
Synopsis
In the course of the mundane routines of life, we encounter a variety of landscapes and objects, either ignoring them or looking without interest at what appears to be just a tree, stone, anonymous building, or dirt road. But the "deep traveler," according to Hartford Courant essayist David K. Leff, doesn't make this mistake. Instead, the commonplace elements become the most important. By learning to see the magic in the mundane, we not only enrich daily life with a sense of place, we are more likely to protect and make those places better. Over his many years working at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and writing about the state's landscape, Leff gained unparalleled intimacy while traveling its byways and back roads. In Hidden in Plain Sight, Leff's essays and photographs take us on a point-by-point journey, revealing the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries-old milestones., The art of discovering cultural and natural treasures in everyday landscapes In the course of the mundane routines of life, we encounter a variety of landscapes and objects, either ignoring them or looking without interest at what appears to be just a tree, stone, anonymous building, or dirt road. But the "deep traveler," according to Hartford Courant essayist David K. Leff, doesn't make this mistake. Instead, the commonplace elements become the most important. By learning to see the magic in the mundane, we not only enrich daily life with a sense of place, we are more likely to protect and make those places better. Over his many years working at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and writing about the state's landscape, Leff gained unparalleled intimacy while traveling its byways and back roads. In Hidden in Plain Sight, Leff's essays and photographs take us on a point-by-point journey, revealing the rich stories behind many of Connecticut's overlooked landmarks, from the Merritt Parkway and Cornwall's Cathedral Pines to roadside rock art and centuries-old milestones.
LC Classification Number
F94.L44 2012
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