Imagined Country

"Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well."—National Geographic Research and Exploration

"Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement."—The Higher