The Green Archipelago : Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan
The Japanese are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they refer to as 'the green archipelago'. This work states that this lush verdue is not a monument to nature's benevolence and Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, but the hard-earned result of generations of human toi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1989.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | The Japanese are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they refer to as 'the green archipelago'. This work states that this lush verdue is not a monument to nature's benevolence and Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, but the hard-earned result of generations of human toil that converted the archipelago into one great forest preserve. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780520908765 |