Shaped By The West Wind

Author : Claire Elizabeth Campbell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774810999
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaped by the West Wind written by Claire Elizabeth Campbell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Claire Campbell draws from recent work in cultural history, landscape studies in geography and art history, and environmental history to explore what happens when external agendas confront local realities - a story central to the Canadian experience. Explorers, fishers, artists, and park planners all were forced to respond to the unique contours of this inland sea; their encounters defined a regional identity even as they constructed a popular image for the Bay in the national imagination."--Jacket.

Author : Claire Elizabeth Campbell
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612680289
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaped by the West Wind [microform] : Nature and History in the Eastern Georgian Bay written by Claire Elizabeth Campbell and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgian Bay demonstrates that Canadian history must be told as an interaction between people and landscape, and landscape history told as a dialogue between changing ideas about nature and experience in a particular place.

Author : Greg Gillespie
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774840382
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting for Empire written by Greg Gillespie and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so he produces a unique theoretical lens through which to study nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land. Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting for Empire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport, geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories of hunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.

Author : Peter Howard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131796943X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Heritage written by Peter Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become more and more accepted that nature conservation is not possible without taking into account human activities. Thus an integrated approach to both the natural and cultural heritage is being encouraged and developed. Gathering a number of distinguished authors with diverse backgrounds (from a religious leader to academics to conservation scientists), the book aims to investigate the relationship between human beings and nature, between nature and culture. Looking at nature as ‘heritage’ of the human race is a recognition both of the tremendous impacts (both positive and negative) that human activities have had on the natural environment, as well as the acceptance of human responsibility for managing our planet in a sustainable and sensitive manner. The texts included examine this interface between human beings and nature in specific places (from the Everglades in Florida and Mont Saint Micelle in Atlantic France, to the UK, Europe and the Mediterranean), as well as on a theoretical basis, and in the context of the international biodiversity conventions.

Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821043
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Environmental History of Canada written by Laurel Sefton MacDowell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how Canada’s colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate change Includes over 200 photographs, maps, figures, and sidebar discussions on key figures, concepts, and cases Offers concise definitions of environmental concepts Ties Canadian history to issues relevant to contemporary society Introduces students to a new, dynamic approach to the past Throughout history most people have associated northern North America with wilderness – with abundant fish and game, snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’s contemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images – deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps. Adopting both a chronological and thematic approach, Laurel MacDowell examines human interactions with the land, and the origins of our current environmental crisis, from first peoples to the Kyoto Protocol. This richly illustrated exploration of the past from an environmental perspective will change the way Canadians and others around the world think about – and look at – Canada.

Author : Sean Kheraj
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774824271
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Stanley Park written by Sean Kheraj and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces how the tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped transform the landscape of one of the world's most famous urban parks. This beautifully illustrated book not only depicts the natural and cultural forces that shaped the park's landscape, it also examines the roots of our complex relationship with nature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395850855
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Wind written by Mary Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of forty poems that explore the transformation of love and nature over time.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547525761
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Wind written by Mary Oliver and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1998-04-07 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. And what did you think love would be like? A summer day? The brambles in their places, and the long stretches of mud? Flowers in every field, in every garden, with their soft beaks and their pastel shoulders? On one street after another, the litter ticks in the gutter. In one room after another, the lovers meet, quarrel, sicken, break apart, cry out. One or two leap from windows. Most simply lean, exhausted, their thin arms on the sill. They have done all they could. The golden eagle, that lives not far from here, has perhaps a thousand tiny feathers flowing from the back of its head, each one shaped like an infinitely small but perfect spear.

Author : Ann Zwinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571312402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaped by Wind and Water written by Ann Zwinger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for her observant and beautifully illustrated books on the rivers, deserts, and mountains of the West, Ann Haymond Zwinger focuses here on her guiding principles as a naturalist as she "looks" with notebook and pencil, believing that "to know the world intimately is the beginning of caring."