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Author Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

Title Landscape with figures : nature and culture in New England / Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American land and life series
American land and life series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.
Contents 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?
Summary 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?
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 Human ecology -- New England.
Human ecology.
New England.
Landscape assessment -- New England.
Landscape assessment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ryden, Kent C., 1959- Landscape with figures. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001 0877457875 0877457883 (DLC) 2001027988 (OCoLC)47044933
ISBN 1587294060 (electronic book)
9781587294068 (electronic book)
0877457883
9780877457886
9780877457879 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0877457875 (cloth : alkaline paper)