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UNINA9910819906903321 |
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Autore |
Ryden Kent C. <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Landscape with figures [[electronic resource] ] : nature & culture in New England / / Kent C. Ryden; foreword by Wayne Franklin |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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The American land and life series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human ecology - New England |
Landscape assessment - New England |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword; Preface; 1.Big Trees and Back Yards; 2.Landscape with Figures; 3.Sea Green; 4. ""A Labyrinth of Errors""; 5. A Walk in the Woods; 6. Redesigning the River; 7. Natural Landscapes, Cultural Regions; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive |
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