The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape
(Part of the Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Series)
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From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell." Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known material from deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081392037X
ISBN13:9780813920375
Release Date:October 2001
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:322 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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