Table of Contents

Landscape and the Metaphysical Imagination - Ronald Hepburn Aesthetics in Practice: Valuing the Natural World - Emily Brady Aesthetic and Other Values in the Rural Landscape - John Benson Admiring the High Mountains: The Aesthetics of Environment - John Haldane What We Owe the Romantics - Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra K. Hinchman Artists with Axes - Tim Bonyhady Thomas Pringle's Plantation - Damian Shaw Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the Search for a Populist Landscape Aesthetic - Renee Binder and G.W. Burnett 'Penetrating' Foreign Lands: Contestations Over African Landscapes. A Case Study from Eastern Zimbabwe - Heike Schmidt Engineering Miracles: Water Control, Conversion and the Creation of a Religious Landscape in the Medieval Ardennes - Ellen F. Arnold Environmental History and the Construction of Nature and Landscape: The Case of the 'Landscaping' of the Jutland heath - Kenneth R. Olwig 'Forsaken Spot' to 'Classic Ground': Geological Heritage in Australia and the Recuperative Power of the Deep Past - Kirsty Douglas 'Welcome to the Atomic Park': American Nuclear Landscapes and the 'Unnaturally Natural' - John Wills Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside - Joseph Goddard