Product Description: In this book Jan Albers examines the history--natural, environmental, social, and ultimately human--of one of America's most cherished landscapes: Vermont.Albers shows how Vermont has come to stand for the ideal of unspoiled rural community, examining both the basis of the state's pastoral image and the equally real toll taken by the pressure of human hands on the land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A unique evolutionary history, told through the mutual interaction of Vermont's natural and human components.