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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788676103321

Titolo

The native landscape reader / / edited by Robert E. Grese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Library of American Landscape History, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61376-184-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design

Disciplina

712

Soggetti

Landscape protection

Natural areas

Landscape design

Essays

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

Cover; Title Page                 ; Copyright Page                     ; Table of Contents                        ; Series Editor's Preface ; Preface              ; Introduction                   ; Part I: Appreciation of Nature                                     ; Chapter 1: Thomas Cole, "Essay on American Scenery" (1835)                                                                 ; Chapter 2: Danske Dandridge, "In the Company of Trees" (1892)

Chapter 3: Charles Sprague Sargent and William Augustus Stiles, "The Love of Nature" (1892)                                                                                                  Chapter 4: Ossian Cole Simonds, "Appreciation of Natural Beauty" (1898)                                                                              ; Chapter 5: Horace William Shaler Cleveland, "Influence of Parks on the Character of Children" (1898)

Chapter 6: Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Outlook to Nature (1911)                                                                   Chapter 7: Selden Lincoln Whitcomb, "The Value of Natural Areas to Literature and Art" (1926)                                                                                                    ; Chapter 8: Stanley White, "The Value of Natural Preserves to the Landscape Architect" (1926)

Chapter 9: William Willard Ashe, "The Value to Silviculture of Reserved Areas of Natural Forest Types" (1926)                                                                                                                    Chapter 10: Arthur Sperry Pearse, "The Value of Aquatic Preserves to



Fisheries" (1926)

Chapter 11: Stephen Sargent Visher, "The Importance to Geography of the Preservation of Natural Areas" (1926)                                                                                                                    Chapter 12: Victor E. Shelford, "The Importance of Natural Areas to Biology and Agriculture" (1926)                                                                                                          ; Part II: Our American Flora

Chapter 1: Andrew Jackson Downing, "The Neglected American Plants" (1851)