| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to the WHQ online. About 156 words from this article are provided below; about 396 words remain.

If you are a individual subscriber to the Western Historical Quarterly, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a subscriber to the Western Historical Quarterly, you can:: • subscribe here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Western Historical Quarterly (104.3-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Western Historical Quarterly.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. By Richard V. Francaviglia. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005, xviii + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.)

Richard Francaviglia is one of the finest, if not the finest, interpreter of American landscapes writing today. In particular, his work on the Great Basin stands among the best examples of regional literature. In his earlier book, Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin (Reno 2003), Francaviglia suggested that the landscapes of the Great Basin are such powerful influences over the human imagination that they have shaped the belief systems of inhabitants from the Paiutes and Shoshones to the Mormons of the twenty-first century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, Francaviglia combines the imaginative force of the region's landscapes with the attempts of human visitors since the fifteenth century to translate those landscapes into maps.

. . .

There are about 396 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.