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(More customer reviews)Jack Williams' "East40 degrees: An Interpretive Atlas" is a stunning account, that showcases the multiple, but unique landscapes that make up our vast country. The interaction between Alabama's courthouse square towns and the Applachian Mountains trails that lead them to Northern Maine were beautifully illustrated in such a "Mcharg" way that I found them enchanting and quite beautifully laid out.
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The Appalachian mountain chain once contained the highest andmost dramatic mountains on earth. Worn down over time, these mountains still holdsome of the most diverse climactic zones and singular geological formations inexistence. In East 40 Degrees: An InterpretiveAtlas, Jack Williams examines a succession of beautiful butlittle-known towns along this cordillera (a term descended from the Latin chorda,meaning "braided rope"), revealing in their layers of history and geography how boththeir diverse cultural and social circumstances and their geological history wereinstrumental in forming each town's distinctive character.Referring to the spatialorientation of the Appalachian mountain chain, the "east 40degrees" of the title runs from Alabama through fifteen states to the coastof Maine. Each town Williams examines sits within the folds of these mountains orbeside a river nourished in their moist uplands. Beginning his record with thecontinental collisions that shaped each town's history more than 300 million yearsago, Williams allows us to "see the tenuous web of connections betweenourselves and the natural processes that shape this earth." Featuring awealth of beautiful and significant illustrations and maps, this unique work bringsinto focus the critical issues of environmental and cultural sustainabilityconfronting us today. Elegant, poetic, and erudite, East 40Degrees will appeal to architects and landscape architects,planners, environmental historians, ecologists, geographers, and anyone interestedin the history and origins of our modern landscapes andtowns. Publication of thisvolume was assisted by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. KaplanFund.
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