Landscape With Figures: Nature & Culture New England (American

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Landscape With Figures: Nature & Culture New England (American Land & Life)

Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the country- side. In Landscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature. Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, than returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.

Country	USA
Author	Kent C. Ryden
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: University Of Iowa Press
EAN	9780877457886
Edition	1
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
IsAdultProduct
ISBN	0877457883
Label	University Of Iowa Press
Manufacturer	University Of Iowa Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	342
PublicationDate	2001-11-01
Publisher	University Of Iowa Press
ReleaseDate	2001-11-01
Studio	University Of Iowa Press

Landscape With Figures: Nature & Culture New England (American Land & Life)