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Landscape with figures : nature and culture in New England /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ryden, Kent C., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
Colección:American land and life series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • 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?