Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill

by Mark C. Taylor

Book Overview

Mark C. Taylor recounts a poignant love affair not with a person but with a place that, paradoxically, cannot be easily localized. For many years, Taylor has lived in the Berkshire Mountains, where he writes and creates land art and sculpture. In a world of mobile screens and virtual realities, where speed is the measure of success and place is disappearing, his work slows down thought and brings life back to earth to give readers time to ponder the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023116498X
• ISBN13: 9780231164986
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher