Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast (American Land & Life)

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Reading Place in the Northern Forest......Page 16
Encounters......Page 30
Meeting Twinflower (Linnaea borealis)......Page 32
Music of the Northern Forest: Boreal Birdsong in Literature and on the Trail......Page 43
Life as Beech: Survival in the New England Forest......Page 64
Teaching and Learning......Page 74
Robert Frost in the Fields and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää at the Treeline: Ecological Knowledge and Academic Learning at the Northern Forest Edge......Page 76
Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks......Page 92
Youth, Refinement, and Environmental Knowledge in the Nineteenth-Century Rural North......Page 113
Place as a Catalyst for Engaged Learning at Franklin Pierce University......Page 148
Rethinking Place......Page 166
Benton MacKaye’s 1904 White Mountains Hike: Exploring a Landscape of Logging, “Camp Ethics,” and Patriotism......Page 168
William James at Chocorua: A Northern Forest Philosopher......Page 186
A Traverse of the Presidential Range with the Scottish Highlands on My Mind......Page 202
Living with the Woods: Disturbance Histories in Thoreau and Burroughs......Page 228
Nature as Commodity......Page 240
In Awe of the Body: Physical Contact, Indulgence Shopping, and Nature Writing......Page 242
Claiming Maine: Acquisition and Commodification in Thoreau’s The Maine Woods......Page 261
So Much Beauty Locked Up in It: Of Ecocriticism and Axe-Murder......Page 276
Contributors......Page 292
Index......Page 296