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Washed with Sun

|9780822959588|Landscape and the Making of White South Africa| South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in…

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Brownsville to Braddock

…Artists / Monographs History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers Nature / Regional…

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Egypt on the Nile

|9780822949091|How Nature Shaped an Ancient Culture| One of the longest rivers in the world, the Nile played a critical role in the development of ancient Egypt. For millennia, much of…

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Fields of Play

…towns, settlement houses, municipal swimming pools, state game lands, stadia, and the city’s landmark rivers were all sites of struggle over inclusion and the meaning of play in the Steel…

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Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency

…it offers an invaluable history of the conservation movement’s origins, and provides an excellent context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions. Against a background of rivers, forests, ranges,…

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