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Title Nature and culture in the northern forest : region, heritage, and environment in the rural Northeast / edited by Pavel Cenkl ; foreword by John Elder.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages).
Series American land and life series
American land and life series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Reading place in the northern forest / Pavel Cenkl -- Meeting twinflower (Linnaea borealis) / Timothy Stetter -- Music of the northern forest : boreal birdsong in literature and on the trail / Terrence Mosher -- Life as beech : survival in the New England forest / Natalie Coe -- Robert Frost in the fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää at the treeline : ecological knowledge and academic learning at the northern forest edge / Kathleen Osgood Dana -- Interdisciplinary teaching about the Adirondacks / Ernest H. Williams, Patrick D. Reynolds, and Onno Oerlemans -- Youth, refinement, and environmental knowledge in the nineteenth-century rural North / Jill Mudgett -- Place as a catalyst for engaged learning at Franklin Pierce University / Catherine Owen Koning, Robert Goodby, John Harris -- Benton MacKaye's 1904 White Mountains hike : exploring a landscape of logging, "camp ethics," and patriotism / Larry Anderson -- William James at Chocorua : a northern forest philosopher / Daniel S. Malachuk -- A traverse of the Presidential Range with the Scottish Highlands on my mind / Richard Paradis -- Living with the woods : disturbance histories in Thoreau and Burroughs / Jim Warren -- In awe of the body : physical contact, indulgence shopping, and nature writing / Priscilla Paton -- Claiming Maine : acquisition and commodification in Thoreau's The Maine woods / Lorianne DiSabato -- So much beauty locked up in it : of ecocriticism and axe-murder / Matthew Bolinder.
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Summary Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose individual stories are closely linked to the region's cultural and environmental history. The fourteen engaging essays in Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest effectively explore the relationships among place, work, and community in this complex landscape. Together they serve as a stimulating introduction to the interdisciplinary study of this unique regio.
Subject Human ecology -- Northeastern States.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Northeastern States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Northeastern States.
Community life -- Northeastern States.
Regionalism -- Northeastern States.
Northeastern States -- Intellectual life.
Northeastern States -- In literature.
Forests and forestry -- Northeastern States.
Northeastern States -- Environmental conditions.
Northeastern States -- Rural conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
NATURE -- Essays.
Community life. (OCoLC)fst00871028
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Forests and forestry. (OCoLC)fst00932632
Human beings -- Effect of environment on. (OCoLC)fst00962843
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Landscapes -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01735942
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Regionalism. (OCoLC)fst01093204
Rural conditions. (OCoLC)fst01101474
Northeastern States. (OCoLC)fst01242521
Humanökologie.
Kulturleben.
Landschaft.
Wald.
Nordoststaaten (USA)
Added Author Cenkl, Pavel, 1971-
Other Form: Print version: Nature and culture in the northern forest. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2010 9781587298561 (DLC) 2009027581 (OCoLC)426147221
ISBN 9781587299360 (electronic bk.)
1587299364 (electronic bk.)
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