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Author Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

Title Mapping the invisible landscape : folklore, writing, and the sense of place / by Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The American land and life series
American land and life series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index.
Contents Reading the Border -- Of Maps and Minds: The Invisible Landscape -- Folklore and the Sense of Place -- The Folklore of Place: The Coeur d'Alene Mining District, North Idaho -- A Walk in the Invisible Landscape: The Essay of Place -- The Essay of Place: Themes in the Cartography of the Invisible Landscape -- Epilogue: Feeling Every Bump in the Ground.
Summary Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence of & mdash;unless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent Ryden & mdash;himself a most careful listener and reader & mdash;asks the following questions. What categories of meanin.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Landscape assessment -- United States.
Landscape assessment.
United States.
Geographical perception -- United States.
Geographical perception.
Folklore -- United States.
Folklore.
American essays -- History and criticism.
American essays.
Folklore -- Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene Region.
Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene Region.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Ryden, Kent C., 1959- Mapping the invisible landscape. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1993 087745406X (DLC) 92046529 (OCoLC)27226261
ISBN 1587292084 (electronic book)
9781587292088 (electronic book)
087745406X (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0877454140 (paper ; acid-free paper)
9780877454069 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780877454144 (paper ; acid-free paper)