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On Looking A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation

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ISBN-10: 1439191263

ISBN-13: 9781439191262

Edition: 2014

Authors: Alexandra Horowitz

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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 ordinary--to 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,…    
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Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 4/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the bestselling Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know. She teaches psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition at Barnard College, Columbia University. In New York City, Alexandra walks with her husband, the writer Ammon Shea, her son, and two large, non-heeling dogs.