Nature and culture in the northern forest : region, heritage, and environment in the rural Northeast / edited by Pavel Cenkl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cenkl, Pavel, 1971-

Series:

American land and life series.

American land and life series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Northeastern States.

Human ecology.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Northeastern States.

Human beings.

Landscapes--Social aspects--Northeastern States.

Landscapes.

Community life--Northeastern States.

Community life.

Regionalism--Northeastern States.

Regionalism.

Forests and forestry--Northeastern States.

Forests and forestry.

Northeastern States--Intellectual life.

Northeastern States.

Northeastern States--In literature.

Northeastern States--Environmental conditions.

Northeastern States--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-58729-936-4

OCLC:

646068300