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- catalog abstract ""In this tour de force of inquiry and thought, Fox leads us through the roughly one-quarter million acres - spanning much of Utah and most of Nevada - that comprise the Great Basin, the highest and driest of the American deserts. Explorers and carto-graphers found it imponderable; pioneers and settlers found it uninhabitable. Even today the Great Basin remains a largely unknown and forbidding landscape, one that continues to exercise a powerful influence on human desire and imagination." "In "The Void," Fox walks us through this landscape, investigating our responses to the Great Basin's appearance - a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale so large, so empty and undifferentiated by shape, form, and color, that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired." ""The Grid," focuses on the evolution of cartography in the nineteenth century and the explorations of John Charles Fremont in his search for the legendary Buenaventura River." ""The Sign" considers the language and the metaphors we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where the neonlined boulevards of Las Vegas overlay and interplay with millennia-old petroglyphs and pictographs." "The Void, the Grid, & the Sign traverses the knowns and the unknowns of the Great Basin and gives us insight into the fanciful and fearsome projections ascribed to its vast spaces."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Void, the grid, and the sign".
- catalog contributor b11520190.
- catalog coverage "Great Basin Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Great Basin Discovery and exploration.".
- catalog coverage "Great Basin Geography.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In "The Void," Fox walks us through this landscape, investigating our responses to the Great Basin's appearance - a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale so large, so empty and undifferentiated by shape, form, and color, that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired." ""The Grid," focuses on the evolution of cartography in the nineteenth century and the explorations of John Charles Fremont in his search for the legendary Buenaventura River." ""The Sign" considers the language and the metaphors we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where the neonlined boulevards of Las Vegas overlay and interplay with millennia-old petroglyphs and pictographs."".
- catalog description ""In this tour de force of inquiry and thought, Fox leads us through the roughly one-quarter million acres - spanning much of Utah and most of Nevada - that comprise the Great Basin, the highest and driest of the American deserts. Explorers and carto-graphers found it imponderable; pioneers and settlers found it uninhabitable. Even today the Great Basin remains a largely unknown and forbidding landscape, one that continues to exercise a powerful influence on human desire and imagination."".
- catalog description ""The Void, the Grid, & the Sign traverses the knowns and the unknowns of the Great Basin and gives us insight into the fanciful and fearsome projections ascribed to its vast spaces."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227).".
- catalog description "Preface: Of Parallax and Privacy ix -- Void 1 -- Grid 65 -- & The Sign 141.".
- catalog extent "xii, 227 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0874806496 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Basin Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Great Basin Discovery and exploration.".
- catalog spatial "Great Basin Geography.".
- catalog spatial "Great Basin".
- catalog spatial "Great Basin.".
- catalog subject "979 21".
- catalog subject "Cartography Great Basin History.".
- catalog subject "F789 .F69 2000".
- catalog subject "Fox, William L., 1949- Journeys Great Basin.".
- catalog subject "Fox, William L., 1949- Travel Great Basin.".
- catalog subject "Human geography Great Basin.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Great Basin.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: Of Parallax and Privacy ix -- Void 1 -- Grid 65 -- & The Sign 141.".
- catalog title "The void, the grid & the sign : traversing the Great Basin / William L. Fox.".
- catalog title "Void, the grid, and the sign".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".