landscapes

David Moon and Leona Skelton who carried out the Oral History project about the man-made environment of Kielder discuss some of their findings.

An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.

This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.

The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.

Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines.

Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results.

The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.

This book examines the various practices—social, discursive, and political—through which Canada’s West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle.

A “deep ecology” of the Middle Ages.

Henry Clifford Darby (Sir Clifford in his later years) was—and arguably remains—Britain’s most well known historical geographer. The Relations of History and Geography consists of a dozen chapters, arranged as three sets of four essays that focus on England, France, and America. At the heart of this book lies a window onto Darby’s views of historical geography, as a field of inquiry, in the three realms over which he cast his gaze.