{"product_id":"flight-maps-jennifer-price-9780465024865","title":"Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America","description":"In five sharply drawn chapters, \u003ci\u003eFlight Maps\u003c\/i\u003e charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections -- and missed connections -- with nature. Beginning with an extraordinary chapter on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and the accompanying belligerent early view of nature's inexhaustibility, Price then moves on to discuss the Audubon Society's founding campaign in the 1890s against the extravagant use of stuffed birds to decorate women's hats. At the heart of the book is an improbable and extremely witty history of the plastic pink flamingo, perhaps the totem of Artifice and Kitsch -- nevertheless a potent symbol through which to plumb our troublesome yet powerful visions of nature. From here the story of the affluent Baby-Boomers begins. Through an examination of the phenomenal success of The Nature Company, TV series such as \u003ci\u003eNorthern Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e and the sport-utility vehicle craze, the author ruminates on our very American, very urbanized and suburbanized needs, discontents, and desires for meaningful, yet artificially constructed connections to nature. Witty, at times even whimsical, \u003ci\u003eFlight Maps\u003c\/i\u003e is also a sophisticated and meditative archaeology of Americans' very real and uneasy desire to make nature meaningful in their lives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0465024866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780465024865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Jennifer Price","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990187114751,"sku":"9780465024865","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82d588ce-4cb6-45c3-95e2-bed53fd254f6.jpg?v=1683303491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flight-maps-jennifer-price-9780465024865","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}