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          <body><![CDATA[Victoria Finlay's comprehensive and authoritative study of the origins and history of pigments is part travel writing, part art history, part cultural studies and explains among other things why Mary has a blue dress in our iconography.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:07:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lisa Mahar has accomplished something wonderful in her study of the evolution of motel signs along old US Route 66. The text explores aspects of the guild of industrial signmakers as well as sociocultural reasons signs took the forms they did and is accompanied by the best visual index and cross ref...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13136464">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[At long last this classic and obscure work has been reissued by UT. Currently reading; review to follow. ]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[For those interested in North American nature studies Edwin Way Teale is an inevitable force to contend with. A reasonable biography is summarized on Wikipedia. He came to my attention via the reference to his Strange Lives of Familiar Insects in Dillard's Pilgrim At Tinker Creek. His four volume &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44317225">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899441.Texas_Hill_Country">Texas Hill Country (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23205.John_Graves">John Graves</a>]]></action_text>
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          <body><![CDATA[This is the hill country companion to the series described in Texas Rivers on my list. Another fine product of the UT press.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Another fine product of the UT press. this is of a series of landscape studies coauthored by Graves and photogrpaher Wyman Meinzer. Beautiful images capture the Texas riverscape and handily elaborate on Graves other writing.]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[The upper atmosphere companion to Hill COuntry and Rivers by Graves and Meinzer. Taken together these works are an excellent visual reference for armchair travelers for the southwest. They are always by my side when I reread Blood Meridian!]]></body>
        
    
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