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An enduring wilderness : Toronto's natural parklands / photographs by Robert Burley ; with writing by Anne Michaels, Michael Mitchell, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Alissa York, George Elliott Clarke, Wayne Reeves.
- Title
- An enduring wilderness : Toronto's natural parklands / photographs by Robert Burley ; with writing by Anne Michaels, Michael Mitchell, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Alissa York, George Elliott Clarke, Wayne Reeves.
- Author
- Burley, Robert, 1957-
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F1059.5.T6843 B87 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 24 x 32 cm
- Summary
- "Featuring tributes from award-winning writers in a city sometimes referred to as "The Big Smoke," Toronto's extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathtaking lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, Canada's first and only urban national park. Burley's photos are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto's best-known writers, including Anne Michaels, George Elliott Clarke, Alissa York, and Michael Mitchell. A historical essay and an appendix highlight the history, the biodiversity, and the priceless cultural value of these urban parklands. Though confined to the city limits, An Enduring Wilderness is full of surprising ecological and urban discoveries that know no limits themselves."--
- Subject
- Urban parks > Toronto
- Urban parks > Toronto > Pictorial works
- Wilderness areas > Toronto
- Wilderness areas > Toronto > Pictorial works
- Urban parks
- Wilderness areas
- Parcs urbains > Toronto
- Parcs urbains > Toronto > Ouvrages illustrés
- Réserves de la vie sauvage > Toronto
- Réserves de la vie sauvage > Toronto > Ouvrages illustrés
- Toronto (Ont.) > Pictorial works
- Ontario > Toronto
- Toronto (Ont.) > Ouvrages illustrés
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 261).
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / by mayor John Tory -- Introduction / by Janie Romoff & Jennifer Keesmaaat -- Going there to be there / by Robert Burley -- Toronto's Natural parklands -- Shoreline : the Lake Ontario waterfront -- Please, birds / Anne Michaels -- River : the Humber River Valley -- Petting the bunny / Michael Mitchell -- Creeks and lost rivers -- Life by water / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Valley : the Don River Valley -- The animal part / Alissa York -- Forest : the Rouge River Valley & Highland Creek -- Navigating the Rouge (Park[s]) / George Elliott Clarke -- Imagining, creating, and sustaining Toronto's natural parklands : a short history / by Wayne Reeves -- Appendix. Toronto's natural parklands / by Jane Weninger.
- ISBN
- 9781770413795
- 1770413790
- 9781773050393
- 1773050397
- 9781773050386 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017392042
- OCLC
- 958351541
- SCSB-11623685
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library