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Book Review

Landscape with Figures: Nature & Culture in New England. By Kent C. Ryden. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. xxii, 317 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-87745-787-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-87745-788-3.)

The figure of William Cronon looms prominently over nearly every page of this well-written, engaging, intelligent book. In a series of articles in the 1990s--best exemplified by 'In Search of Nature' and 'The Trouble with Wilderness: or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,' both to be found in Uncommon Ground (1995)--Cronon challenged easy assumptions about wilderness, nature, and the role of human culture in shaping the physical landscape, especially that landscape thought to be pristine wilderness. Cronon argued that the Western notion of wilderness is a cultural construction and that there is hardly an acre on the planet that does not bear, under scrutiny, the vestigial insignia of human impact. . . .
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