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Mapping the Invisible Landscape
Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place
Häftad, 1993
244 kr
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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 …
Deep Travel
In Thoreau's Wake on the Concord and Merrimack
Inbunden, 2009
303 kr
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In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau's observations as revealed in ""A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"", Leff brought his own concept …
Thoreau's Sense of Place
Essays in American Environmental Writing
Häftad, 2000
244 kr
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The contributors to this work address how the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau and his successors attempted to cope with the epistemological split between the perceiver and place inherent in writing about nature. They discuss the kinds of discourse most effective for writing about place.
Father Nature
Fathers as Guides to the Natural World
Häftad, 2003
187 kr
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How Do you thank the person who gave you a vantage from which to see the world? This question is more than the opening statement of Father Nature: Fathers as Guides to the Natural World - it is the resounding theme that runs through each of the essays in this tribute to fathers and fathering and to …
Grove Karl Gilbert
A Great Engine of Research
Häftad, 2007
279 kr
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The life of Grove Karl Gilbert, first chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, spanned the heroic age of American geology during the time that this young earth science was being intellectually and institutionally defined. By the time of Gilbert's death in 1918 at age seventy-five, geology …
Oneota Flow
The Upper Iowa River and Its People
Häftad, 2009
249 kr
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'The river, like a keen memory, carries a record of the past.' David Faldet has spent forty years in the basin of the Upper Iowa River, which winds from the flat farm fields of southern Minnesota through the wooded valleys of northeast Iowa to the Mississippi. In this peaceful and inspiring book, …
