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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