Nature and culture in the northern forest
Subtitle: region, heritage, and environment in the rural Northeast
By: Pavel Cenkl, editor.
Contributors: Cenkl, Pavel, 1971-
Series: American land and life series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City, Iowa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587298561
Subjects: Human ecology -- Northeastern States; Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Northeastern States; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Northeastern States; Community life -- Northeastern States; Regionalism -- Northeastern States; Forests and forestry -- Northeastern States; Northeastern States -- Intellectual life; Northeastern States -- In literature; Northeastern States -- Environmental conditions; Northeastern States -- Rural conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading place in the northern forest / Pavel Cenkl; title: Music of the northern forest : boreal bird song in literature and on the trail / Terrence Mosher; title: Meeting twinflower (Linnaea borealis) / Timothy Stetter; title: Life as beech : survival in the New England forest  / Natalie Coe; title: Robert Frost in the fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeap at the treeline : ecological knowledge and academic learning at the northern forest edge / Kati Dana; title: Interdisciplinary teaching on the Adirondacks / Ernest H. Williams, Patrick D. Reynolds, and Onno Oerlemans; title: Youth, refinement, and environmental knowledge in the nineteenth century rural North / Jill Mudgett; title: Place as a catalyst for engaged learning at Franklin Pierce University / Catherine Owen Koning, Robert Goodby, John Harris; title: Logging, "camp ethics," and patriotism : following the footsteps of Benton MacKaye's 1904 White Mountains hike / Larry Anderson; title: William James and Chocorua / Daniel S. Malachuk; title: A traverse of the presidential range with the Scottish Highlands on my mind / Richard Paradis; title: Living with the woods : disturbance histories in Thoreau and Burroughs / Jim Warren; title: In awe of the body : physical contact, indulgence shopping, and nature writing / Priscilla Paton; title: Claiming Maine : acquisition and commodification in Thoreau's The Maine woods / Lorianne DiSabato; title: "So much beauty locked up in it" : of ecocriticism and axe-murder / Matthew Bolinder.