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The Rural Landscape
John Fraser Hart
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Description for The Rural Landscape
Hardback. Carrying the story of the rural landscape into our frantic era, he describes the "bow wave"where city life meets rural agriculture and plots the effect of recreation and its structures on the look of the land. Num Pages: 416 pages, 229, 93 black & white line drawings, 136 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 839.
In this book, John Fraser Hart offers a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape-those regions that lie at or beyond the fringes of modern metropolitan life. Though the last two centuries have seen an inversion in the portion of people living on farms to those in cities, the land still beckons, whether traversed in a car or train, scanned from far above, or as the locus of our food supply or leisure. The Rural Landscape provides a deceptively simple method for approaching the often complex and variegated shape of the land. Hart divides it ... Read more
In this book, John Fraser Hart offers a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape-those regions that lie at or beyond the fringes of modern metropolitan life. Though the last two centuries have seen an inversion in the portion of people living on farms to those in cities, the land still beckons, whether traversed in a car or train, scanned from far above, or as the locus of our food supply or leisure. The Rural Landscape provides a deceptively simple method for approaching the often complex and variegated shape of the land. Hart divides it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801857171
SKU
V9780801857171
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99-50
About John Fraser Hart
John Fraser Hart is professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include The South, The Land That Feeds Us (recipient of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers), and, as editor, Our Changing Cities. The Rural Landscape is a thoroughly reworked successor to his earlier book, The ... Read more
Reviews for The Rural Landscape
John Fraser Hart's study of the ever-changing rural landscape is a competent and richly illustrated account of human endeavour, charting patterns of land use across time and space, from the small cross-ploughed fields of Neolithic Britain to the vast wheat-producing plains of modern-day America. It reveals how history is continuously incorporated into the landscape. Times Literary Supplement Hart has a ... Read more