The book investigates the idyllic notion of the American landscape, and shows which elements contribute to this iconography and at what cost it can be maintained. It describes the thin line between nature and civilization: how did the landscape evolve, where are the interfaces between the organic and the artificial world and do they fail or succeed? Volume 1 depicts photographs made over a period of ten years by Jongerius. Volume 2 collects a series of essays about the making of the American landscape, with texts by Mark Pimlott, Mishka Henner, Rixt Bosma & Jeremy Rowe, Hans Gremmen, Kristof Swaegers, Warren Techentin, Raymond Frenken, Elian Somers, Matthew Coolidge & Megan Steinman, Taco Hidde Bakker & Felix van de Vorst, Alex Lehnerer and William L. Fox. Edited by Hans Gremmen. Housed in printed book board cover.