First edition of Turning Back by Robert Adams. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Please see photographs for reference.
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Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark reported finding in the American Northwest a vast forest of ancient evergreens. InTurning Back, Robert Adams looks again at the regions trees, discovering evidence both of Americas failure and of a continuing promise. Going east, Adams suggests, was more difficult than going west.Turning Backdocuments two kinds of predictive evidence. On the one hand Adams observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. On the other we see what still lives, whether by our design or neglect, or providence. From coastal landscapes populated with tourists to timber clear-cutting and small family farms in Oregon,Turning Backreflects what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history.
