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)

by Stephen Adams

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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:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813920388

ISBN13:9780813920382

Release Date:October 2001

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:305 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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