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Author : Kenn Kaufman,Kimberly Kaufman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618456970
Presents an illustrated field guide to the plants, wildlife, night sky, and natural environments of New England.
Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493052196
Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it’s the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in a relatively small, six-state region. Maybe it’s the regenerative powers of the ecosystem in a place of repeated exploitations. Or maybe we have simply been thinking about our relationship with the natural world longer than everyone. If all successive nature writing is a footnote to Henry David Thoreau, then New England has a strong claim to being the birthplace of the genre. But there are, as the sixty entries in this anthology demonstrate, many other regional voices that extol the wonders and beauty of the outdoors, explore local ecology, and call for environmental sustainability. Between these covers, Noah Webster calls for our stewardship of nature and Lydia Sigourney finds sublime pleasure in it. Jonathan Edwards and Helen Keller both find miracles, while Samuel Peters and Mark Twain find humor. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne discovers a place to hide his metaphors, while the enslaved James Mars discovers an actual hiding place. Through it all is the apprehension of a profound and lasting splendor, “the glory of physical nature,” as W.E.B. Dubois calls it, something beyond our everyday concerns and yet tied so closely to our daily lives that we cannot escape it. Nature writing cultivates our sense of beauty, inflaming curiosity and the passion to explore. It opens us to deep, primal experiences that enrich life. Anyone wanting to understand our relationship with the world must start here.
Author : Richard M. DeGraaf,Mariko Yamasaki
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0874519578
The only comprehensive guide to the natural histories and habitats of all inland New England species
Author : John S. Burk
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0764339834
New England's landscape offers a remarkable array of natural diversity in a compact geographic area. From the alpine mountains and expansive lakes to hidden old-growth forests, gorges, and bogs, revel in the beauty of it all through nearly 200 color photographs. More than 100 of the region's natural areas are featured. Visit popular destinations such as Cape Cod, Franconia Notch, Cadillac Mountain, and Quechee Gorge, as well as less-known destinations off of the beaten path. Discover why waterfalls are short-lived and mobile, and how rare trees and flowers arrived in New England. Each clearly written site description details why the area is unique, how it was formed, and offers historical anecdotes and access information including recommended trails and auto roads. This book is a must-have for nature and photography enthusiasts, history buffs, hikers, and anyone who loves the great outdoors.
Author : Charles Fergus
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Trees
ISBN : 0762737956
A beautifully written natural history of the more than seventy tree species that grow in New England. Includes detailed illustrations and range maps.
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0881504203
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781643260945
Step Out of Your Car and Right into Nature! New England’s Roadside Ecology guides you through 30 spectacular natural sites, all within an easy walk from the road. The sites include the forests, wetlands, alpines, dunes, and geologic ecosystems that make up New England. Author Tom Wessels is the perfect guide. Each entry starts with the brief description of the hike's level of difficulty—all are gentle to moderate and cover no more than two miles. Entries also include turn-by-turn directions and clear descriptions of the flora, fauna, and fungi you are likely to encounter along the way. New England’s Roadside Ecology is a must-have guide for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, and tourists in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Author : Theodore Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521527112
A reinterpretation of industrialization that centres on the struggle to control and master nature.
Author : Richard William Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 1625341016
8. Conserving Urban Ecologies -- 9. Saving Second Nature -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781581578577
Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.
Author : New England Wild Flower Society
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781493029266
Native plants are drought tolerant, disease resistant, wildlife friendly, and environmentally sound. Experts increasingly encourage gardeners to use natives exclusively. This handy and practical guide focuses on 100 great native flowers, ground covers, shrubs, ferns, and grasses that will thrive in New England gardens. The presentation is aimed at gardeners, who want concise, practical information. It will also include material on the importance and desirability of using native plants. The heart of this book is 100 two-page spreads, one for each species. The spreads will include facts about the plant of use to a gardener (not a botanist)—where it grows best, when it blooms, the soil conditions in which it thrives, its appeal to wildlife, sunlight requirements, how high it grows, how to propagate it, and how to avoid any problems particular to the species. Each spread will also feature two color photos.
Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780807899625
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 1600 and 1860. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change. Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future.
Author : Strother E. Roberts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251272
Focusing on the Connecticut River Valley—New England's longest river and largest watershed— Strother Roberts traces the local, regional, and transatlantic markets in colonial commodities that shaped an ecological transformation in one corner of the rapidly globalizing early modern world. Reaching deep into the interior, the Connecticut provided a watery commercial highway for the furs, grain, timber, livestock, and various other commodities that the region exported. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy shows how the extraction of each commodity had an impact on the New England landscape, creating a new colonial ecology inextricably tied to the broader transatlantic economy beyond its shores. This history refutes two common misconceptions: first, that globalization is a relatively new phenomenon and its power to reshape economies and natural environments has only fully been realized in the modern era and, second, that the Puritan founders of New England were self-sufficient ascetics who sequestered themselves from the corrupting influence of the wider world. Roberts argues, instead, that colonial New England was an integral part of Britain's expanding imperialist commercial economy. Imperial planners envisioned New England as a region able to provide resources to other, more profitable parts of the empire, such as the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Settlers embraced trade as a means to afford the tools they needed to conquer the landscape and to acquire the same luxury commodities popular among the consumer class of Europe. New England's native nations, meanwhile, utilized their access to European trade goods and weapons to secure power and prestige in a region shaken by invading newcomers and the diseases that followed in their wake. These networks of extraction and exchange fundamentally transformed the natural environment of the region, creating a landscape that, by the turn of the nineteenth century, would have been unrecognizable to those living there two centuries earlier.
Author : Ted Elliman,Native Plant Trust
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781604697407
An essential reference for wildflower enthusiasts, hikers, and naturalists Wildflowers of New England is a compact, beautifully illustrated guide packed with descriptions and photographs of thousands of the region’s most important wildflowers. It includes annuals, perennials, and biennials, both native and naturalized. Covers Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont Describes and illustrates more than 1,000 species 1,100 beautiful color photographs User-friendly organization by color and shape Authoritative trailside reference from the region’s wildflowers experts
Author : David R. Foster,John F. O'Keefe
Publisher : Harvard University Forest
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050252413
Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through Time these historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
