Landscapes

On his Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences website, Stilgoe comments,

Education ought to work outdoors, in the rain and the sleet, in the knife-like heat of a summertime Nebraska wheat field, along a half-abandoned railroad track on a dark autumn afternoon, on the North Atlantic in winter. All that I do is urge my students and my readers to look around, to realize how wonderfully rich is the built environment, even if the environment is only a lifeboat close-hauled in a chiaroscuro sea."

- from Outside Lies Magic (1999), landscape historian John R. Stilgoe

John R. Stilgoe is an award-winning historian and photographer who is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University, where he has been teaching since 1977. He is also a fellow of the Society of American Historians.

 Books:

• Train Time: Railroads and Imminent Landscape Change (University of Virginia Press, 2007)
• Landscape and Images (University of Virginia Press, 2005)
• Lifeboat: A History of Courage, Cravenness, and Survival at Sea (University of Virginia Press, 2003)
• Outside Lies Magic (Walker & Company, 1998)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Stilgoe