Western impressions of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia : Victor R. Savage
Author(s): Savage, Victor R.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Western impressions of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia
- Author(s)
- Savage, Victor R.
- Publisher
- Singapore : Singapore University Press, c1984
- Collation
- xxi, 456 p. : ill.
24 cm. - ISBN
- 9971690810
- Dewey Class
- 915.904
- Contents
- List of Maps - List of Plates -- A Note On Place Names -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction; The Priorities and Parameters; Environment Cognition in Perspective; The Historical Senario -- Chapter Two: Region of Marvels, Myths And Mysteries; The Golden Khersonese and Ophir; Birds of Paradise and the Deadly "Upas" Trees; The Missing Links: Ape-Men; Strange, Romantic Lands of Adventure -- Chapter Three: Nature And Landscape: Wealth, Fecundity And Plenitude; Wealthy Landscapes: The Evidence; Opulent Kingdoms and Ports; Spices of the Orient; Nature's Wealth: Natural Resources; Cornucopia of Nature: Food; The Tropical Garden: Fertile Soils; Naturalist's Paradise: Scientific Discoveries; Fecundity and Plenitude: Environmental Influences; Explaining Native Apathy and Indolence; Lotus-eating Utopia: Carefree and Happy People; Soft Enironments: Barbarianism or Civilization; Natural Riches: The Colonial Impetus -- Chapter Four: Tropical Climate: InFluences; Favourable Lands: Salubrious Climate; Insalubrious Climate: Unfavourable Lands; Miasma, Malaria and Mosquitoes; Batavia: White Man's Graveyard; Climate and Man: Determinism; Explaining Native Physiology, Behaviour and Character; Climate and Race: The Western Experience; Climate and Civilization: The Colonial Dilemma -- Chapter Five: The Aesthetic Evaluation; Flora and Fauna: Charming, Pretty and Beautiful; Sensory Nature: Sounds, Smells and Tastes; Landscape: Appreciation and Appraisal; Landscape of Plenitude, Scenic Sights: Waterscapes and Landscapes; Aesthetic Taste: Colourful, Beautiful and Picturesque; The Aesthetic Judgement -- Chapter Six: Feelings, Sentiments and Moods; Love of Nature; Happy, Gloomy and Sad Landscapes; Soulful Feelings: Awful and Sublime; Landscape Theatre: Horror, Fear and Terror; In Mental Realms: Imagination and Nostalgia; Sentimentalists: "Benign" Colonization -- Chapter Seven: Historial Landscapes; Art and Architecture; Sacred Landscapes; Memoirs: History and Civilization -- Chapter Eight: Reflections -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Landscapes -- Southeast Asia.
Natural history -- Southeast Asia. - BRN
- 4663
Notes
- Based on author's doctoral dissertation 'The western cognition of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia' submitted to the Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
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