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" Landscapes of culture and nature / "
Rod Giblett
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BL
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711040
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b533229
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| Main Entry
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Giblett, Rodney James
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| Title & Author
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Landscapes of culture and nature /\ Rod Giblett
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009
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xii, 205 p. :: ill., maps ;; 23 cm
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0230235840 (hardback)
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: 9780230235847 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet -- PART I: UNCANNY: Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny; The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night -- PART II: WORLD WAR S(UB)LIME: Earth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench Warfare; Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of Cities in World War II Aerial Warfare -- PART III: PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBLIME AND UNCANNY: Wilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American West; Shooting the sunburnt country, the land of sweeping plains, the rugged mountain ranges: The Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography -- PART IV: MINDSCAPES: Land Health and Mental Health: A New Field of Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on Farms; Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future -- PART V: WATER-BODIES: A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters; Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body
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| Abstract
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"This book is a bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher
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Geographical perception
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Human ecology
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Human geography
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Landscape assessment
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304.2
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GF41.G5 2009
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