Reading the Landscape of Europe

by May Theilgaard Watts

Book Overview

"Seeing Jesus as He Really Is" takes you on a journey through the Gospels and along the way, you'll see how Jesus really lived, how He radically changed the world, and how Jesus is portrayed through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060145366
• ISBN13: 9780060145361
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

See Europe through the eyes of an ecologist and poet.

Pick up a used copy of this charming book. You'll be glad you did. Author May Theilgaard Watts' mottos, as a naturalist, teacher, poet, and keen observer of the ways in which we human beings shape our world, could have been, "everything is connected to everything else," and, "everything tells a story." Reading her descriptions of the landscapes of Europe is like travelling with an extremely knowledgeable, funny, curious, and opinionated guide. How I wish I could have been there with her, but the book is a wonderful treat on its own. She visits seven countries, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Britain. The local landscapes she considers are well worn, shaped over centuries by humans and nature. She draws on botany, geography, literature, astronomy, and history, to explain why a place looks, smells, and feels the way it does, and to give us a sense of the soul of the place. In "A Vocabulary of the British Landscape," she explains the natural and human history of moors and heaths, wealds and downs--and the ecology of a bomb crater in London. Her pen and ink drawings are delightful. At the end of the book is a key to the trees of Europe, similar to her well-known key to American trees, the Tree Finder. Full disclosure: I am the author's granddaughter, and current publisher of her book, Reading the Landscape of America.