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Clues to the Landscape History of New England
出版University Press of New England, 2003
主題Nature / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & PatriotismScience / Earth Sciences / GeographySocial Science / Regional StudiesTravel / Museums, Tours, Points of InterestTravel / United States / Northeast / GeneralTravel / United States / Northeast / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
ISBN15846520559781584652052
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yMUMAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋How does one read a landscape? With infectious enthusiasm and wit, Lenney guides the reader through a historical and cultural examination of how New England's artificial landscape - placenames, boundaries, townplans, roads, houses, and gravestones - came to be. The author makes sense of the placename suffixes that dot our maps - the -fields, -tons, -hams, and -burys that append themselves to our life and land, and forces the reader to reconsider the shape of the village green and the unique hybrids of architecture, to wonder why old roads go where they go, and to question why (good neighbors and Robert Frost notwithstanding) we build stone walls. By pushing us beyond mere sightseeing to sightseeking, Lenney dares to fundamentally alter the way we experience and interpret the New England landscape.