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

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, Iowa, : University of Iowa Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.20974
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Northeastern States Intellectual life; Northeastern States In literature; Northeastern States Environmental conditions; Northeastern States Rural conditions
• Altri autori: CenklPavel <1971->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Nature and culture in the northern forest
• ISBN: 1-58729-936-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791472103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American land and life series.