Unholy Alliances, Patrick Kevin Land

Автор: Chura, Patrick
Название: Thoreau the land surveyor
ISBN: 0813041473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813041476
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: <p>Henry David Thoreau, one of America’s most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parcelling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only study of its kind, Patrick Chura analyses this seeming contradiction to show how the best surveyor in Concord combined civil engineering with civil disobedience. </p> <p>Placing Thoreau's surveying in historical context, <em>Thoreau the Land Surveyor</em> explains the cultural and ideological implications of surveying work in the mid-nineteenth century. Chura explains the ways that Thoreau's environmentalist disposition and philosophical convictions asserted themselves even as he reduced the land to measurable terms and acted as an agent for bringing it under proprietary control. He also describes in detail Thoreau's 1846 survey of Walden Pond. By identifying the origins of <em>Walden</em> in--of all places--surveying data, Chura re-creates a previously lost supporting manuscript of this American classic. </p>

Автор: Cahill, Kevin
Название: Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth About Every Piece of Land on the Planet
ISBN: 0446581216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446581219
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska, purchase coffee beans from Timor-Leste, and visit Dubai. But what do we really know about these lands?