In the Nature of Landscape

Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads

David Matless (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2014
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-9081-7 (ISBN)

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In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural landscape as a new direction for research in cultural geography through an in-depth study of the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England, whose geography and history have been shaped for centuries by cohabiting and conflicting interests. .

In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural landscape as a new direction for research in cultural geography.

Represents the first cultural geographic study of the Norfolk Broads region of eastern England
Addresses regional cultural landscape through consideration of narratives of landscape origin, debates over human conduct, the animal and plant landscapes of the region, and visions of the ends of landscape through pollution and flood
Draws upon in-depth original research, spanning almost two decades of archival work, interviews, and field study
Covers a great diversity of topics, from popular culture to scientific research, folk song to holiday diaries, planning survey to pioneering photography, and ornithology to children’s literature
Features a variety of illustrative material, including original photographs, paintings, photography, advertising imagery, scientific diagrams, maps, and souvenirs

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.

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

Reihe/Serie	RGS-IBG Book Series
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-4051-9081-7 / 1405190817
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-9081-7 / 9781405190817
Zustand	Neuware