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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457981703321

Titolo

Nature and culture in the northern forest [[electronic resource] ] : region, heritage, and environment in the rural Northeast / / edited by Pavel Cenkl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa, : University of Iowa Press, c2010

ISBN

1-58729-936-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

American land and life series

Altri autori (Persone)

CenklPavel <1971->

Disciplina

304.20974

Soggetti

Human ecology - Northeastern States

Human beings - Effect of environment on - Northeastern States

Landscapes - Social aspects - Northeastern States

Community life - Northeastern States

Regionalism - Northeastern States

Forests and forestry - Northeastern States

Electronic books.

Northeastern States Intellectual life

Northeastern States In literature

Northeastern States Environmental conditions

Northeastern States Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Reading Place in the Northern Forest; Encounters; Meeting Twinflower (Linnaea borealis); Music of the Northern Forest: Boreal Birdsong in Literature and on the Trail; Life as Beech: Survival in the New England Forest; Teaching and Learning; Robert Frost in the Fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää at the Treeline: Ecological Knowledge and Academic Learning at the Northern Forest Edge; Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks; Youth, Refinement, and Environmental Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century Rural North

Place as a Catalyst for Engaged Learning at Franklin Pierce UniversityRethinking Place; Benton MacKaye's 1904 White Mountains



Hike: Exploring a Landscape of Logging, "Camp Ethics," and Patriotism; William James at Chocorua: A Northern Forest Philosopher; A Traverse of the Presidential Range with the Scottish Highlands on My Mind; Living with the Woods: Disturbance Histories in Thoreau and Burroughs; Nature as Commodity; In Awe of the Body: Physical Contact, Indulgence Shopping, and Nature Writing; Claiming Maine: Acquisition and Commodification in Thoreau's The Maine Woods

So Much Beauty Locked Up in It: Of Ecocriticism and Axe-MurderContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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