The Nature of Canada

These captivating reflections on the history of our environment and ourselves will make you think differently not only about Canada's past but also about our future.

Sommario

Introduction
1 Nature and Nation / Graeme Wynn
2 Painting the Map Red / Graeme Wynn
3 Listening for Different Stories / Julie Cruikshank
4 Eldorado North? / Stephen J. Hornsby and Graeme Wynn
5 Back to the Land / Colin M. Coates
6 Nature We Cannot See / Graeme Wynn
7 The Wealth of Wilderness / Claire E. Campbell
8 Imagining the City / Michèle Dagenais
9 Never Just a Hole in the Ground / Arn Keeling and John Sandlos
10 Every Creeping Thing ... / Ken Cruikshank
11 The Power of Canada / Steve Penfold
12 Questions of Scale / Tina Loo
13 A Gendered Sense of Nature / Joanna Dean
14 Advocates and Activists / Graeme Wynn, with Jennifer Bonnell
15 Climates of Our Times / Liza Piper
16 Time Chased Me Down, and I Stopped Looking Away / Heather E. McGregor
Index

Info autore

Edited by Colin M. Coates and Graeme Wynn

Riassunto

These captivating reflections on the history of our environment and ourselves will make you think differently not only about Canada’s past but also about our future.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Colin M Coates (Editore), Colin M. Coates (Editore), Graeme Wynn (Editore)
• Editore: University of British Columbia Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780774890366
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-9036-6
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 228 mm x 155 mm x 30 mm
• Peso: 572 g
• Illustrazioni: 72 b&w photos, 4 maps, 2 charts
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Saggistica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria, mondo antico; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia