Landscapes of Culture and Nature

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-16
Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny....Pages 17-35
The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night....Pages 36-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-58
Earth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench Warfare....Pages 59-68
Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of World War II Aerial Warfare....Pages 69-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-88
Wilderness to Wasteland: The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American West....Pages 89-105
Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plains, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: The Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography in Promoting Environmental Sustainability and in Forming a New National Identity....Pages 106-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Land Health and Mental Health: A New Field for Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on Farms....Pages 125-137
Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future....Pages 138-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-156
A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters....Pages 157-173
Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body....Pages 174-189
Back Matter....Pages 190-205