Reading Rural Landscapes - Couverture souple

Stanford, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0884483665 ISBN 13 : 9780884483663

Editeur : Tilbury House, 2015

Synopsis

Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

A former Registered Professional Archaeologist and environmental regulator, Robert Sanford is a professor of environmental science and policy and the chair of the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Southern Maine.

A sculptor who works primarily in hay, he is a professor of art at the University of Southern Maine. He once drove across the USA and back with a giant hay ball on the top of his car -- he brought his landscape with him.

Mark Lapping is Distinguished Professor, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tilbury House
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0884483665
• ISBN 13: 9780884483663
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Shaughnessy Michael
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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