Matless In the Nature of Landscape

Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-29572-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

In the Nature of Landscape presents regional culturallandscape as a new direction for research in culturalgeography.

* Represents the first cultural geographic study of the NorfolkBroads region of eastern England

* Addresses regional cultural landscape through consideration ofnarratives of landscape origin, debates over human conduct, theanimal and plant landscapes of the region, and visions of the endsof landscape through pollution and flood

* Draws upon in-depth original research, spanning almost twodecades of archival work, interviews, and field study

* Covers a great diversity of topics, from popular culture toscientific research, folk song to holiday diaries, planning surveyto pioneering photography, and ornithology to children'sliterature

* Features a variety of illustrative material, including originalphotographs, paintings, photography, advertising imagery,scientific diagrams, maps, and souvenirs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matless, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface vi
List of Illustrations vii
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations xii
1 Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads 1
2 Origins 39
3 Conduct 55
Icon I: Wherry 96
4 Animal Landscapes 106
5 Plant Landscapes 142
Icon II: Windmill 173
6 The Ends of Landscape 182
7 Concluding 215
Notes 224
References 238
Index 270

Über Autor(innen)

David Matless is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Landscape and Englishness (1998), editor of Geographies of British Modernity (2003) and The Place of Music (1998), and contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.