The Void, the Grid & the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin

by William L. Fox

Book Overview

This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox's book is divided into the three sections of the title. In "The Void," he leads us through the Great Basin landscape, investigating our visual response to it--a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale of such magnitude and emptiness and undifferentiated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874176182
• ISBN13: 9780874176186
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"