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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.
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?
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Note Print version record.
Subject Human ecology -- New England.
Landscape assessment -- New England.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Landscape assessment. (OCoLC)fst00991858
New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
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Genre/Form Electronic book.
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 bk.)
9781587294068 (electronic bk.)
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