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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456338603321

Autore

Ryden Kent C. <1959->

Titolo

Mapping the invisible landscape : folklore, writing, and the sense of place / / by Kent C. Ryden ; foreword by Wayne Franklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [1993]

©1993

ISBN

1-58729-208-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

The American land and life series

Disciplina

304.2/3

304.23

Soggetti

American essays -- History and criticism

Folklore -- Idaho -- Coeur d'Alene Region

Landscape assessment -- United States

Landscape assessment - History and criticism - United States

Geographical perception - United States

Folklore - United States

American essays - History and criticism

Folklore - Idaho - Coeur d'Alene

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Prologue: Reading the Border; 1. Of Maps and Minds: The Invisible Landscape; 2. Folklore and the Sense of Place; 3. The Folklore of Place: The Coeur d'Alene Mining District, North Idaho; 4. A Walk in the Invisible Landscape: The Essay of Place; 5. The Essay of Place: Themes in the Cartography of the Invisible Landscape; Epilogue: Feeling Every Bump in the Ground; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of  experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place  understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders  may not suspect the existence of-unless they listen and read carefully.  This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these  stories are the focus of this engrossing book.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

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387807803316

Autore

Brugis Thomas <fl. 1640?>

Titolo

Vade mecum: or, A companion for a chirvrgion [[electronic resource] ] : Fitted for times of peace or war. Briefly shewing the use of every instrument necessary, and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are ordinarily used, with the way to make them. Likewise, the dressing of green wounds ... Together with the manner of making reports, either to a magistrate, or a coronoers enquest. Also a treatise concerning bleeding at the nose. / / By Tho. Brugis .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J.S. for Tho. Williams ..., 1657

Edizione

[The 3rd ed. corrected, with the addition of directions, for vomiting and purging.]

Descrizione fisica

[31], 245, [1] p. : port

Soggetti

Medicine

Pharmacopoeias

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index, p. 231-245.

Portrait, p. [1] at beginning.

Advertisement: p. [1] at end.

Imperfect: pages tightly bound with loss of print.

Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

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