Product Description: Using a wide range of materials that include memoirs, oral interviews, poetry, legal cases, letters, government documents, and even road signs, Robert Hayashi illustrates how Thomas Jefferson's vision of an agrarian, all white, and democratic West affected the Gem State's Nez Perce, Chinese, Shoshone,Mormon, and Japanese residents...read more

The ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically are explored in this account of how the White Mountains of New Hampshire have been captured in the writings of different visitors, residents, and developers, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Critically analyzing the relationship between place and art, a study of the work of seven authors from the Midwest--Dave Etter from Illinois, Wisconsin's Norbert Blei, Jim Harrison of upper Michigan, and Linda Hasselstrom of South Dakota, among others--explores how an author's intimate knowledge of place is reflected in their use of environment, language, geography, and behavior. Simultaneous.

An experimental study of the creation and preservation of botanical knowledge follows the lives of two prominent Rocky Mountain botanists.

Product Description: Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in AmericaOCOs Auto Age, cultural geographer John Jakle and historian Keith Sculle explore the ways in which we take meaning from outdoor signs and assign meaning to our surroundingsOCothe ways we OC readOCO landscape...read more

Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that nature is everywhere, close to home as well as in more remote wilderness, in the city and in the countryside. In Landscape with Figures he dissolves the border between culture and nature to merge ideas about nature, experiences in nature, and material alterations of nature. Ryden takes his readers from the printed page directly to the field and back again-. He often bypasses books and goes to the trees from which they are made and the landscapes they evoke, then returns with a renewed appreciation for just what an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach can bring to our understanding of the natural world. By exploring McPhee's The Pine Barrens and Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, the coastal fiction of New England, surveying and Thoreau's The Maine Woods, Maine's abandoned Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and the natural bases for New England's historical identity, Ryden demonstrates again and again that nature and history are kaleidoscopically linked.

Product Description: The Follinglo Dog Book both is and is not about dogs. The dogs are certainly here: from Milla to Chip the Third, we encounter a procession of heroic if often unfortunate creatures who, along with their immigrant masters, led a hard life on the nineteenth-century American frontier...read more

Book by Franklin, Wayne

Draws on primary texts, charts, and paintings to trace the diligence of America's first chroniclers through the three stages of discovery, exploration, and settlement, defining each stage's distinctive kind of writing