Mapping the invisible landscape : folklore, writing, and the sense of place /

"Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence of--unless they listen and read carefully. This invisible...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryden, Kent C., 1959- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1993]
Series:American land and life series.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt20h6sc9
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : reading the border
  • Of maps and minds : the invisible landscape
  • Folklore and the sense of place
  • The folklore of place : the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, North Idaho
  • A walk in the invisible landscape : the essay of place
  • The essay of place : themes in the cartography of the invisible landscape
  • Epilogue : feeling every bump in the ground.