Reading the Land

Title

Reading the Land

Author

Potts, Gary

Supervising Faculty

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

Reference Number

TPB-553

Date

1998

Location of Document

U-Links Office and online

Area

Haliburton County, Temagami

Subject

Sensory experiences of the environment

Abstract

The author records his sensory and interpretive experiences as he spends time in the Haliburton Highlands one winter. Working from the sense of being integrated as part of the Universal Cosmos and the feeling of interdependence while "reading the land" once held important by the Teme-Augama Anishnabai and others peoples, he begins by relating his memories of growing up in the Lake Temagami bioregion and the many ways his senses became ingrained with the environment.

Travelling in the Haliburton Highlands in 1998, these skills of "reading the land" are transferred to a new area and his experiences are related as he walks several areas of the region observing the biodiversity at his feet.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Potts, Gary, Reading the Land, Trent University, 1998