A bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. INDICE: Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Quaking Zone: Where Body, Land and Mind Meet - PART I: UNCANNY - Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny - The Nether World of the Uncanny City of Dreadful Night - PART II: WORLD WAR S(UB)LIME - Earth and Water in the Slime of World War I Trench Warfare - Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of Cities in World War II Aerial Warfare - PART III: PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBLIME AND UNCANNY - Wilderness to Wasteland:The Sublime, the Picturesque and the Uncanny in the Photography of the American West - The Role of Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography - PART IV: MINDSCAPES - Land Health and Mental Health: A New Field of Research Nurturing Biodiversity and Well-Being on Farms - Terrifying Prospects and Resources of Hope: Minescapes, Timescapes and the Aesthetics of the Future - PART V: WATER-BODIES - A Natural History of Natural, Unnatural and National Disasters - Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the Life-Blood of the Earth-Body - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23584-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés