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c o n t e n t s QR Foreword by Wayne Franklin ix Preface xvii 1. Big Trees and Back Yards: Time, Landscape, and the Borders of Nature 1 2. Landscape with Figures: Land and Tradition in American Nature Writing 43 3. Sea Green: Ethics and Environment in New England Coastal Fiction 67 4. “A Labyrinth of Errors”: Thoreau, Cartography, and The Maine Woods 96 5. A Walk in the Woods: Art and Artifact in a New England Forest 135 6. Redesigning the River: Nature, Technology, and the Cumberland and Oxford Canal 158 7. Natural Landscapes, Cultural Regions; or, What Is Natural about New England? 199 Notes 283 Index 307 ...

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