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William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes and the geographical tradition
Author(s) -
Whyte Ian
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2000.tb00119.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , historical geography , geography , human geography , economic geography , sociology , history , archaeology
Summary Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes has not been considered in the context of the development of geography in Britain during the early nineteenth century. This paper examines its distinctive approach to the description and analysis of landscape and locates it within the literature of geography, arguing that it was one of the first systematic geographical studies of a region within the British Isles.