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The Lost Landscape
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-09-08
The Lost Landscape written by Joyce Carol Oates and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow’s Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become. In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time—the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.
The Lost Landscape
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2015-09-08
The Lost Landscape written by Joyce Carol Oates and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we’ve never seen her before.
Landmarks
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Author : Robert Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Landmarks written by Robert Macfarlane and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Nature categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. Praise for Robert Macfarlane: 'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer "I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.' Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment' Sunday Times
Changing Landscapes Of Singapore
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Author : Hamzah Muzaini
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2013-08-26
Changing Landscapes Of Singapore written by Hamzah Muzaini and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-26 with Social Science categories.
Changing Landscapes of Singapore illuminates both the social and the physical terrains of modern Singapore. Geographers use the term landscape to refer to visible surfaces and to the spatial dimension of social relations. Landscapes arise from particular historical circumstances, and in turn help shape social arrangements and possible courses of future development. The authors describe how the settings inhabited by various social groups in Singapore affect life experiences, and explore the impact of broader regional and international forces on Singapore. Written for non-specialists, the volume reflects fresh perspectives from the scholarship of Singaporean academics. Their work is sensitive to historical and geographical trends in the region, and also engages with broader theoretical themes.
The Big Marsh
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Author : Cheri Register
language : en
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Release Date : 2016-05-01
The Big Marsh written by Cheri Register and has been published by Minnesota Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Nature categories.
Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County’s Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the neighboring communities. Families hunted its immense flocks of migrating waterfowl, fished its waters, trapped muskrats and mink, and harvested wood and medicinal plants. As farmland prices rose, however, the value of the land under the water became more attractive to people with capital. While residents fought bitterly, powerful outside investors overrode local opposition and found a way to drain 18,000 acres of wetland at public expense. Author Cheri Register stumbled upon her great-grandfather’s scathing critique of the draining and was intrigued. Following the clues he left, she uncovers the stories of life on the Big Marsh and of the “connivers” who plotted its end: the Minneapolis land developer, his local fixer, an Illinois banker, and the lovelorn local lawyer who did their footwork. The Big Marsh, an environmental history told from a personal point of view, shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now.
Vanishing Landscapes
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Author : Bonnie Lander Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2025-04-17
Vanishing Landscapes written by Bonnie Lander Johnson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-17 with Nature categories.
The story of our relationship with plants, from the Medieval period to today's British landscape. In the past, we were deeply bound to plants. But we no longer understand nature as we once did. We value a plant for its use, often processing it until it barely approximates what once grew in the ground. We have lost a sense of plants as precious. Vanishing Landscapes tells the story of how this happened - and with it the history of how we became modern. From the 1500s, in the space of just two hundred years, plants disappeared from our daily lives one by one. First were apples, then household medicines like saffron, cloth dyes like woad and then, eventually, the timber from which we built houses and the wheat we grew for our bread. In their place came the first corporation, the first factory, the banking system, private property, global trade, and the professionalisation of medicine. Through eight different plants, Bonnie Lander Johnson conjures up a world we never knew, but whose loss we are still feeling. She takes us out into the fields of Britain and Ireland to camp in an orchard, to gaze up at an unchanging sky, and to meet the farmers and artisans who are fighting to save the old ways. Vanishing Landscapes is a timely reminder of the life we have lost and what we can still save.
Landscape Perspectives
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Author : Marc Antrop
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-12-19
Landscape Perspectives written by Marc Antrop and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-19 with Science categories.
Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.
The Lost Landscape
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
language : en
Publisher: 4th Estate
Release Date : 2016
The Lost Landscape written by Joyce Carol Oates and has been published by 4th Estate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become. In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time--the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.
Lost From Our Landscape
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Author : John Woinarski
language : en
Publisher: Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts
Release Date : 2007
Lost From Our Landscape written by John Woinarski and has been published by Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Endangered species categories.
Threatened Species in the Northern Territory- plants, invertebrates, fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, mammals.
Thirty Two Words For Field
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Author : Manchán Magan
language : en
Publisher: Bonnier Books UK
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Thirty Two Words For Field written by Manchán Magan and has been published by Bonnier Books UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with History categories.
Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and branches spanning the world, from Australia and India to North America. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic. In Thirty-Two Words for Field Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty and sheer oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon. Imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic, it evokes a time-honoured way of life, from its 32 separate words for a field, to terms like loisideach (a place with a lot of kneading troughs), bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), and iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at cockcrow). Told through stories collected from Magan's own life and travels, Thirty-Two Words for Field is an enthralling celebration of Irish words, and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture and language.