Preface

Contributors

Acknowledgments

PART I NATURE, HOME AND HORIZON

Reflections on the History of Western Attitudes to Nature

Clarence Glacken

Ideas of Nature in East Asian Lands

Hajime Nakamura

Japan's Traditional View of Nature and Interpretation of Landscape

M. Senda

Indian Attitudes Toward Nature

R. C. Pandeya

Nature and Cosmic Integrity: A Search in Hindu Geographical Thought

Rana P. B. Singh

World Views of Arab Geographers

Hassan Hanafi

Perspectives on the Contributions of Arabs and Muslims to Geography

El-Sayed El-Bushra

Muhammad M. Muhammadain

PART II OFFICIAL VERSUS FOLK VISIONS

Cosmos and Hearth in China

Yi-Fu Tuan

Interplay of State and Local Concern in the Management Of Natural Resources: Hydraulics and Forestry in Spain, 1855-1936

Josefina Gomez Mendoza

Nicolas Ortega Cantero

The Real Country and the Legal Country: Spanish Ideals and Mayan Realities in Colonial Guatemala

W. George Lovell

Popular and Official Appraisals of Natural Resources: Some Evidence from Australia

R. L. Heathcote

God, Thine Earth is Burning: Nature Attitudes and the Latvian Drive for Independence

Edmunds Valdemars Bunkse

Arctic Worlds and the Geography of Imagination

Nancy Doubleday

PART III NARRATIVE IMAGINATION IN THE LANDSCAPE

A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative

William Cronon

Invented Tradition and Academic Convention in Geographical Thought About New England

Martyn J. Bowden

Writing ``God's Fine Wilderness'': John Muir in the Mountains of California

Luke Wallin

Contested Visions: Nature, Culture and the Morality of Landscape in the Scottish Highlands

Charles W. J. Withers

The Narrative Creation of Place: Yeats and West-of-Ireland Landscapes

Patrick Sheeran

Farmers, Foresters, Gypsies, Guests: Narratives of Swedish Cultural Identity

Anne Buttimer

Waking the Dead: Exploring Mexican and Arctic Spaces