| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
American land and life series |
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American land and life series.
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| Contents |
Big Trees and Back Yards: Time, Landscape, and the Borders of Nature -- Landscape with Figures: Land and Tradition in American Nature Writing -- Sea Green: Ethics and Environment in New England Coastal Fiction -- "A Labyrinth of Errors": Thoreau, Cartography, and The Maine Woods -- A Walk in the Woods: Art and Artifact in a New England Forest -- Redesigning the River: Nature, Technology, and the Cumberland and Oxford Canal -- Natural Landscapes, Cultural Regions; or, What Is Natural about New England? |
| Summary |
Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent Ryden--himself a most careful listener and reader--asks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- New England
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Landscape assessment -- New England
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Human ecology
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Landscape assessment
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Landschapsecologie.
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New England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1587294060 |
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9781587294068 |
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