Author: May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550237
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows how to read the stories written in the land, interpreting the clues laid down by history, culture, and natural forces. A renowned teacher, writer and conservationist in her native Midwest, Watts studied with Henry Cowles, the pioneering American ecologist. She was the first to explain his theories of plant succesion to the general public. Her graceful, witty essays, with charming illustrations by the author, are still relevant and engaging today, as she invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes.
Reading the Landscape of America
Author: May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550237
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows how to read the stories written in the land, interpreting the clues laid down by history, culture, and natural forces. A renowned teacher, writer and conservationist in her native Midwest, Watts studied with Henry Cowles, the pioneering American ecologist. She was the first to explain his theories of plant succesion to the general public. Her graceful, witty essays, with charming illustrations by the author, are still relevant and engaging today, as she invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes.
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550237
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows how to read the stories written in the land, interpreting the clues laid down by history, culture, and natural forces. A renowned teacher, writer and conservationist in her native Midwest, Watts studied with Henry Cowles, the pioneering American ecologist. She was the first to explain his theories of plant succesion to the general public. Her graceful, witty essays, with charming illustrations by the author, are still relevant and engaging today, as she invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes.
Reading the Landscape
Author: Peter Valenti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780155014329
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
This reader/rhetoric is appropriate for composition courses or single-topic courses relating to the environment or ecology. It provides a solid introduction to the writing process, while moving the student from a me-oriented personal view into a larger world of family and community through readings and exercises.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780155014329
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
This reader/rhetoric is appropriate for composition courses or single-topic courses relating to the environment or ecology. It provides a solid introduction to the writing process, while moving the student from a me-oriented personal view into a larger world of family and community through readings and exercises.
Reading the Landscape of Europe
Author: May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550305
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Come along on a field trip with the esteemed American naturalist May Theilgaard Watts to see how nature, history and culture have written their stories on the landscapes of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Britain. She makes a lively guide, knowledgeable, literary, witty and opinionated, drawing on botany, ecology, and geography, as well as literature and folklore, to explain how a place came to look and feel the way it does.In this sequel to her popular book Reading the Landscape of America, Watts explored the hills of Italy, the grouse heath of Britain, the Black Forest of Germany, the limestone plateaus of France, and much more, explaining the forces that shaped these landscapes and continue to change them. Illustrated with dozens of pen and ink by the author. Includes a key to identifying the trees of Europe.
Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
ISBN: 9780912550305
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Come along on a field trip with the esteemed American naturalist May Theilgaard Watts to see how nature, history and culture have written their stories on the landscapes of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Britain. She makes a lively guide, knowledgeable, literary, witty and opinionated, drawing on botany, ecology, and geography, as well as literature and folklore, to explain how a place came to look and feel the way it does.In this sequel to her popular book Reading the Landscape of America, Watts explored the hills of Italy, the grouse heath of Britain, the Black Forest of Germany, the limestone plateaus of France, and much more, explaining the forces that shaped these landscapes and continue to change them. Illustrated with dozens of pen and ink by the author. Includes a key to identifying the trees of Europe.
Reading the Forested Landscape
Author: Tom Wessels
Publisher: Nature
ISBN: 9780881504200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Publisher: Nature
ISBN: 9780881504200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges
Reading the Landscape
Author: May Theilgaard Watts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Reading the American Landscape
Author: Lex ter Braak
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789056627034
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Their journey is recorded in Reading the American Landscape, which includes essays by the members of the group and a number of American landscape researchers.
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
ISBN: 9789056627034
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Their journey is recorded in Reading the American Landscape, which includes essays by the members of the group and a number of American landscape researchers.
Reading the Landscape
Author: Peter Watson
Publisher: GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD
ISBN: 1861089937
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
It is not only what we see but how we see that makes a difference... In his sequel to Capturing the Light, Peter Watson revisits the often delicate process of interpreting and capturing landscapes in photography. His, almost scientific, approach challenges us to see like an artist and seize creative opportunities, whilst comprehensive tools and techniques coverage allow us to put his theories into practice, with impressive results.
Publisher: GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD
ISBN: 1861089937
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
It is not only what we see but how we see that makes a difference... In his sequel to Capturing the Light, Peter Watson revisits the often delicate process of interpreting and capturing landscapes in photography. His, almost scientific, approach challenges us to see like an artist and seize creative opportunities, whilst comprehensive tools and techniques coverage allow us to put his theories into practice, with impressive results.
Reading the Irish Landscape
Author: Frank Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is the third revision of this seminal work. Co-authored by original author Frank Mitchell and now Michael Ryan, the result is a stunning collaboration between masters giving all the elements of the original book, modified, updated and further enhanced by the inclusion of a new narrative of Irish archaeology from the Stone Age to the Norman Invasion. Together they have successfully undertaken the daunting task of giving in one book the story of the shaping of the land from the beginning of time until now, by all tbe varying forces of nature, sea, climate, man and machine. The story takes in the shaping of the crust, the movement of glaciers, the first men and their primitive agriculture, their buildings and their effect on the forests, the growth of bogs, new migrations, the rise of the monasteries of the Early Christians and the castles of conquest, the devastation of war, urban growth, modern agriculture and afforestation, all set against the backdrop of the landscape, arguably one Ireland's most precious resources.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This is the third revision of this seminal work. Co-authored by original author Frank Mitchell and now Michael Ryan, the result is a stunning collaboration between masters giving all the elements of the original book, modified, updated and further enhanced by the inclusion of a new narrative of Irish archaeology from the Stone Age to the Norman Invasion. Together they have successfully undertaken the daunting task of giving in one book the story of the shaping of the land from the beginning of time until now, by all tbe varying forces of nature, sea, climate, man and machine. The story takes in the shaping of the crust, the movement of glaciers, the first men and their primitive agriculture, their buildings and their effect on the forests, the growth of bogs, new migrations, the rise of the monasteries of the Early Christians and the castles of conquest, the devastation of war, urban growth, modern agriculture and afforestation, all set against the backdrop of the landscape, arguably one Ireland's most precious resources.
What Is Landscape?
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029898
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029898
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.
How to Read the Landscape
Author: Robert Yarham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912217274
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An easily accessible, highly illustrated guide to the geology, geography and geomorphology that form landscapes. Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that formed it. With this book, learn about the principles of geology, geography and geomorphology, and discover how a basic understanding of geological timescales, plate tectonics and landforms can help you 'read' the great outdoors. This is a highly illustrated book with a very accessible text that beautifully illuminates the landscape around us.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912217274
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An easily accessible, highly illustrated guide to the geology, geography and geomorphology that form landscapes. Interest in the environment has never been greater and yet most of us have little knowledge of the 4 billion years of history that formed it. With this book, learn about the principles of geology, geography and geomorphology, and discover how a basic understanding of geological timescales, plate tectonics and landforms can help you 'read' the great outdoors. This is a highly illustrated book with a very accessible text that beautifully illuminates the landscape around us.