What is Landscape? by John R. Stilgoe

What is Landscape?

John R. Stilgoe

280 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective slow-paced
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Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: "landschop." Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as "landskep...

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