{"product_id":"the-voidgrid-sign","title":"The Void Grid \u0026 Sign","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt last  the ultimate travel book  a journey not only through the stunning Great Basin but also through our own minds wherein land becomes landscape by means of art  architecture and narrative. 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. In a book that has become a classic of contemporary desert literature  Fox navigates us through a landscape so alien it has much to tell us about who we are. 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 by shape  form  and color that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired. \"The Grid\" leads us on a journey through the evolution of cartography in the nineteenth century and the explorations of John Charles Frmont to the net of maps  section markers  railroads  telegraph lines  and highways that humans have thrown across the void throughout history. \"The Sign\" wends us through the metaphors and language we continue to place around and over the void  revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where  for example  the neon boulevards of Las Vegas interplay with ancient petroglyphs. In this one-of-a-kind travel book that allows us to travel within our own neurophysiological processes as well as out into the arresting void of the Great Basin  Fox has created a dazzling new standard at the frontier of writing about the American West. His stunning and broad insight draws from the fields of natural history  cognitive psychology  art history  western history  archaeology  and anthropology  and will be of value to scholars and readers in all these subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964013047861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0874806496","price":48.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780874806496.jpg?v=1770445312","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-voidgrid-sign","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}