Author: George Woolworth ColtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
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J.H. Colton's American School Quarto Geography ... With an Atlas of More Than One Hundred Steel Plate Maps, Profiles and Plans on Forty-two ... Sheets. Drawn ... by G.W. Colton
Author: George Woolworth ColtonJ.H. Colton's American School Quarto Geography
Author: Joseph Hutchins ColtonPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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J.H. Colton's American School Quarto Georgraphy, Comprising the Several Departments of Mathematical, Physical, and Civil Geography
Author: Joseph Hutchins ColtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Freewill Baptist Quarterly
Author: Four Centuries of Special Geography
Author: O.F.G. SitwellPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844574
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
Landscape and Images
Author: John R. StilgoePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393754X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn’t only a rarity; he or she is suspect. Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America’s constructed landscapes. Stilgoe’s essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of "teen geography" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o’ lanterns becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural Midwest for the classic image of itself. At times breathtaking in their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe’s observations speak to specialists—whether they be artists, historians, or environmental designers—as well as to the common reader. Our landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent. The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.
Author: J. H Colton
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Author: J. H. Colton
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