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Hardcover The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape Book

ISBN: 081392037X

ISBN13: 9780813920375

The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape

(Part of the Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Series)

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From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell."

Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known material from deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen...

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