ISBN:
0877457875
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0877457883
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1587294060
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9780877457879
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9780877457886
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9781587294068
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 317 pages)
Series Statement:
American land and life series
DDC:
304.2/0974
Keywords:
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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Human ecology
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Landscape assessment
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Umwelt
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Humanökologie
;
Mensch
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Neuengland
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Neuengland
;
Mensch
;
Umwelt
;
Neuengland
;
Humanökologie
Note:
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index
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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?
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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?
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