Landscapes of Culture and Nature

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.

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