"Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America With the Center for Land Use Interpretation," a coffee-table chronicle of land-use curiosities edited by Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons with an essay by Ralph RugoThe hallmarks of this 264-page, 8-by-10-inch paperback volume (Distributed Art Publishers; $34.95) are deadpan descriptions and anonymous photography, all detailing weird, wonderful and (mostly) horrific things Americans have done to their landscape, including deliberately flooding the town of Neversink, N.Y., and practice-bombing Nevada.
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