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Book Title: Sanctified Landscape : Writers, Artists, and the HUDSON RIVER Valley, 1820-1909
Item Length: 10.1in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 7.2in
Author: David Schuyler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Environmental Conservation & Protection, American / General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Nature, Travel, Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
