Landprints Reflections on Place and Landscape

Name: Landprints Reflections on Place and Landscape
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ISBN: 9780521659994

ISBN-10: 052165999X

ISBN-13: 9780521659994

Edition: 1998

Authors: George Seddon, Gustav J. V. Nossal

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This is an extraordinary collection of essays about landscape. With a lively and engaging style, George Seddon considers everything from creating a garden in Fremantle, to locating ancient plants while wandering in a Far North Queensland rainforest to analysing the geological features on either side of the tram tracks in Collingwood. Yet while the book celebrates Australia, and covers many topics that seem familiar and everyday, it is challenging and provocative. Seddon is acutely aware of the moral and environmental aspects of history and is able to present local and regional history on a grand scale. Landprints reflects a lifetime devoted to questions about landscape: the ways we use and…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

George Seddon AM is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Melbourne and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Western Australia. He has held chairs in four disciplines and taught in universities across Europe and North America. His recent books include Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape (Cambridge University Press, 1996).



Prelude


Fugue for six voices



Talking: The Language of Landscape



The nature of nature



Words and weeds



Journeys through a landscape



On the road to Botany Bay



A Snowy River reader



Perceiving: The Eyes and the Mind



The evolution of perceptual attitudes



Eurocentrism and Australian science, some examples



Figures in the landscape



Dreaming up a rainforest



Home thoughts from abroad



Locating: The Sense of Place



Sense of place



The genius loci and the Australian landscape



Cuddlepie and other surrogates



Jet-set and parish pump



Placing the debate



Making: Creating Gardens and the Evolution of Styles



The suburban garden in Australia



The Australian backyard



Gardening across Australia



The garden as paradise



Analysing: Ideologies and Attitudes



The rhetoric and ethics of the environmental protest movement



The perfectibility of Nature



Sharing and Caring: Ecological Frameworks



Biological pollution



The lie of the land



Eating the future



Felling the 'Groves of Life'


Coda: learning to be at home: 'and then came Venice'