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Take a field trip with American naturalist May Theilgaard Watts to see how nature, history, and culture have written their stories on the landscapes of Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Britain. In this sequel to her popular book Reading the Landscape of America, Watts explores the hills of Italy, the grouse heath of Yorkshire, the Black Forest of Germany, the limestone plateaus of France, and much more, explaining the forces that shaped these landscapes and continue to change them. She draws on botany, ecology, and geography, but also literature and folklore, to interpret the clues written on the land, as she considers the shapes of rooflines and coastlines, the ecology of forests and hedgerows, or the design of a vegetable plot. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by the author. Includes a key to identifying the trees of Europe. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 334 pages
Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st edition (1971)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060145366
ISBN-13: 978-0060145361
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,959,176 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars See Europe through the eyes of an ecologist and poet., April 3, 2001

By	B. E. Watts (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Pick up a used copy of this charming book. You'll be glad you did. Author May Theilgaard Watts' mottos, as a naturalist, teacher, poet, and keen observer of the ways in which we human beings shape our world, could have been, "everything is connected to everything else," and, "everything tells a story." Reading her descriptions of the landscapes of Europe is like travelling with an extremely knowledgeable, funny, curious, and opinionated guide. How I wish I could have been there with her, but the book is a wonderful treat on its own. She visits seven countries, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Britain. The local landscapes she considers are well worn, shaped over centuries by humans and nature. She draws on botany, geography, literature, astronomy, and history, to explain why a place looks, smells, and feels the way it does, and to give us a sense of the soul of the place. In "A Vocabulary of the British Landscape," she explains the natural and human history of moors and heaths, wealds and downs--and the ecology of a bomb crater in London. Her pen and ink drawings are delightful. At the end of the book is a key to the trees of Europe, similar to her well-known key to American trees, the Tree Finder. Full disclosure: I am the author's granddaughter, and current publisher of her book, Reading the Landscape of America.

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