What is landscape? / John R. Stilgoe.

Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Stilgoe, John R., 1949- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Landscapes > Philosophy. Landscapes > Terminology. Landscapes. Terminology.