Reading the Landscape of America

Reading the Landscape of America

Author: May Theilgaard Watts

Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780912550237

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In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows how to read the stories written in the land, interpreting the clues laid down by history, culture, and natural forces. A renowned teacher, writer and conservationist in her native Midwest, Watts studied with Henry Cowles, the pioneering American ecologist. She was the first to explain his theories of plant succesion to the general public. Her graceful, witty essays, with charming illustrations by the author, are still relevant and engaging today, as she invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes.


Reading the Landscape of Europe

Reading the Landscape of Europe

Author: May Theilgaard Watts

Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780912550305

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Come along on a field trip with the esteemed American naturalist May Theilgaard Watts to see how nature, history and culture have written their stories on the landscapes of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Britain. She makes a lively guide, knowledgeable, literary, witty and opinionated, drawing on botany, ecology, and geography, as well as literature and folklore, to explain how a place came to look and feel the way it does.In this sequel to her popular book Reading the Landscape of America, Watts explored the hills of Italy, the grouse heath of Britain, the Black Forest of Germany, the limestone plateaus of France, and much more, explaining the forces that shaped these landscapes and continue to change them. Illustrated with dozens of pen and ink by the author. Includes a key to identifying the trees of Europe.


Reading the Irish Landscape

Reading the Irish Landscape

Author: Frank Mitchell

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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This is the third revision of this seminal work. Co-authored by original author Frank Mitchell and now Michael Ryan, the result is a stunning collaboration between masters giving all the elements of the original book, modified, updated and further enhanced by the inclusion of a new narrative of Irish archaeology from the Stone Age to the Norman Invasion. Together they have successfully undertaken the daunting task of giving in one book the story of the shaping of the land from the beginning of time until now, by all tbe varying forces of nature, sea, climate, man and machine. The story takes in the shaping of the crust, the movement of glaciers, the first men and their primitive agriculture, their buildings and their effect on the forests, the growth of bogs, new migrations, the rise of the monasteries of the Early Christians and the castles of conquest, the devastation of war, urban growth, modern agriculture and afforestation, all set against the backdrop of the landscape, arguably one Ireland's most precious resources.


What Is Landscape?

What Is Landscape?

Author: John R. Stilgoe

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2015-10-09

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0262029898

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A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.


How to Read the Landscape

How to Read the Landscape

Author: Robert Yarham

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912217274

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An easily accessible, highly illustrated guide to the geology, geography and geomorphology that form landscapes. Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that formed it. With this book, learn about the principles of geology, geography and geomorphology, and discover how a basic understanding of geological timescales, plate tectonics and landforms can help you 'read' the great outdoors. This is a highly illustrated book with a very accessible text that beautifully illuminates the landscape around us.


How to Read the Landscape

How to Read the Landscape

Author: Patrick Whitefield

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781856231855

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Patrick Whitefield has spent a lifetime living and working in the countryside and 20 years of that taking notes of what he sees, everywhere from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands. This book explains everything from the details, such as the signs which wild animals leave as their signatures and the meaning behind the shapes of different trees, to how whole landscapes, including woodland, grassland and moorland, fit together and function as a whole. Rivers and lakes, roads and paths, hedgerows and field walls are also explained, as are the influence of different rocks, the soil and the ever-changing climate.


Window Seat: Europe

Window Seat: Europe

Author: Gregory Dicum

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2006-08-24

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780811851510

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Flying on the wing of the North American edition's success, this book decodesthe sights to be seen on any flight across Europe. 67 color aerial photos. 18line drawings. Fold-out map.


Reading the American Landscape

Reading the American Landscape

Author: Lex ter Braak

Publisher: Nai010 Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789056627034

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Their journey is recorded in Reading the American Landscape, which includes essays by the members of the group and a number of American landscape researchers.