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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2010.
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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.