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Nature and culture in the northern forest : region, heritage, and environment in the rural Northeast /

Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose individual stories are closely linked to the region's cult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cenkl, Pavel, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2010.
Colección:American land and life series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading place in the northern forest / Pavel Cenkl
  • Meeting twinflower (Linnaea borealis) / Timothy Stetter
  • Music of the northern forest : boreal birdsong in literature and on the trail / Terrence Mosher
  • Life as beech : survival in the New England forest / Natalie Coe
  • Robert Frost in the fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää at the treeline : ecological knowledge and academic learning at the northern forest edge / Kathleen Osgood Dana
  • Interdisciplinary teaching about the Adirondacks / Ernest H. Williams, Patrick D. Reynolds, and Onno Oerlemans
  • Youth, refinement, and environmental knowledge in the nineteenth-century rural North / Jill Mudgett
  • Place as a catalyst for engaged learning at Franklin Pierce University / Catherine Owen Koning, Robert Goodby, John Harris
  • Benton MacKaye's 1904 White Mountains hike : exploring a landscape of logging, "camp ethics," and patriotism / Larry Anderson
  • William James at Chocorua : a northern forest philosopher / Daniel S. Malachuk
  • A traverse of the Presidential Range with the Scottish Highlands on my mind / Richard Paradis
  • Living with the woods : disturbance histories in Thoreau and Burroughs / Jim Warren
  • In awe of the body : physical contact, indulgence shopping, and nature writing / Priscilla Paton
  • Claiming Maine : acquisition and commodification in Thoreau's The Maine woods / Lorianne DiSabato
  • So much beauty locked up in it : of ecocriticism and axe-murder / Matthew Bolinder.