The best and worst country in the world : perspectives on the early Virginia landscape
An ecocritical exploration of the varied preconceptions that have shaped and coloured the human relationship with the early Virginia landscape. Drawing on familiar history and lesser-known material, it focuses on the changes to the land over time and changes in the way people viewed Virginia.
Print Book, English, 2001
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2001
History
xii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9780813920375, 9780813920382, 081392037X, 0813920388
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Prehuman Virginia: a brief geological history
Virginia Indians and the land
The Spanish in Virginia
The Roanoke colonies
Jamestown, 1606 to 1624: the metaphors
Jamestown: slaughterhouse and death trap
Perspectives from the royal colony, 1625 to 1700
Tobacco, look of the land, explorations west