Landscape with figures : nature & culture in New England / Kent C. Ryden; foreword by Wayne Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

Series:

American land and life series.

The American land and life series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--New England.

Human ecology.

Landscape assessment--New England.

Landscape assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index.

ISBN:

1-58729-406-0

OCLC:

56352151