Canadian Wetlands

Canadian Wetlands

by Giblett, Rodney James

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Canadian Wetlands

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Intellect
  • Place of Publication:Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (254)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1783201762, 9781783201761, 9781783202515, 1783202513
  • oclc:on1071347711
  • LC Classification:QH77.C2
  • Dewey Decimal:333.9

Table of Contents

Canadian wetlands culture : past and present -- Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon -- 'In the Acadian land' of Evangeline : the marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow's literary legacy -- 'The marsh lies rich and wanton' : the Tantramar Marshes, Charles G.D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead -- 'Noisome marsh' and 'incurable marshes' : Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula -- 'A swampy flat' : Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta -- A city 'set in malarial lakeside swamps' : Toronto and Ashbridge's Bay Marsh -- 'Land and water disputed empire' : Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau -- 'Quaking morass' : the marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold -- 'Smelling the old marsh, I knew I was home' : Harry Thurston's marshes of Nova Scotia and the future of Canadian wetlands culture.

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