Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape
Autor George Seddon Cuvânt înainte de Gustav Nossalen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 1998
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521659994
ISBN-10: 052165999X
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Melbourne, Australia
ISBN-10: 052165999X
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Melbourne, Australia
Cuprins
Prelude; Fugue for six voices; Part I. Talking: The Language of Landscape: 1. The nature of nature; 2. Words and weeds; 3. Journeys through a landscape; 4. On the road to Botany Bay; 5. A Snowy River reader; Part II. Perceiving: The Eyes and the Mind: 6. The evolution of perceptual attitudes; 7. Eurocentrism and Australian science, some examples; 8. Figures in the landscape; 9. Dreaming up a rainforest; 10. Home thoughts from abroad; Part III. Locating: The Sense of Place: 11. Sense of place; 12. The genius loci and the Australian landscape; 13. Cuddlepie and other surrogates; 14. Jet-set and parish pump; 15. Placing the debate; Part IV. Making: Creating Gardens and the Evolution of Styles: 16. The suburban garden in Australia; 17. The Australian backyard; 18. Gardening across Australia; 19. The garden as paradise; Part V. Analysing: Ideologies and Attitudes: 20. The rhetoric and ethics of the environmental protest movement; 21. The perfectibility of Nature; Part VI. Sharing and Caring: Ecological Frameworks: 22. Biological pollution; 23. The lie of the land; 24. Eating the future; 25. Felling the 'Groves of Life'; Coda: learning to be at home: 'and then came Venice'.
Recenzii
'… replete with original insights, wisdom, charm, humour and a delight to read … It should be read by all students at the start of their geographic education, and kept thereafter as a desk book to be picked up and browsed when they tire of study and wish to learn instead'. Australian Geographical Studies
'Landprints is a delightful book … it deserves as wide an audience as possible.' Intercultural Studies
'Landprints is a delightful book … it deserves as wide an audience as possible.' Intercultural Studies
Descriere
From one of Australia's foremost thinkers, a uniquely broad-ranging 1997 collection of essays on landscape.