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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (Audio CD) (Unabridged)by Horowitz, Alexandra
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2013
ISBN is 9781442359321 / 1442359323
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog, this elegant and entertaining (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world, in fact, many worlds we've been missing (USA TODAY).
Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryto practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, the observation of trifles. Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see… Read More