TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giblett,Rod
AU  - Mules,Warwick
AU  - Potter,Emily
AU  - Potter,Emily
TI  - Canadian Wetlands: Places and People
T2  - Issn Series
SN  - 9781783202515
AV  - QH541.5.M3 .G384 20 
U1  - 810.9360905 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Intellect, Limited
KW  - Wetlands -- Canada
KW  - Wetland ecology -- Canada
KW  - Culture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Canadian wetlands culture: Past and present -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon -- Notes -- Chapter 3: 'In the Acadian land' of Evangeline: The marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow's literary legacy -- Acadian Grand Pré -- Longfellow's Evangeline -- Present pressures and future prospects -- Chapter 4: 'The marsh lies rich and wanton': The Tantramar Marshes, Charles G. D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead -- Charles G. D. Roberts -- Douglas Lochhead -- Present pressures and future prospects -- Notes -- Chapter 5: 'Noisome marsh' and 'incurable marshes': Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula -- Note -- Chapter 6: 'A swampy flat': Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta -- Chapter 7: A city 'set in malarial lakeside swamps': Toronto and Ashbridge's Bay Marsh -- Marshy and military beginnings -- Sublime city in a swampy wilderness and in a melancholy marsh -- Disease and health -- Waterbird habitat and uncanny place -- Marshlands as liminal space -- Mourning and reclamation -- Mapping the marsh and the metropolis -- Chapter 8: 'Land and water disputed empire': Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau -- Note -- Chapter 9: 'Quaking morass': The marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold -- Chapter 10: 'Smelling the Old Marsh, I knew I was home': Harry Thurston's marshes of Nova Scotia and the future of Canadian wetlands culture -- References -- Index -- BackCover
N2  - In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett critiques the Canadian canon's popular representation of wetlands and proposes alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers
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