Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi

Robert Lawrence France is a leading authority on ecological science and the management, design, and history of cultural landscapes. He has taught at the universities of Harvard, Ca’Foscari Venice, and McGill, Canada, and is presently a Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. He has published several hundred journal articles and 20 books, including the Along the Way: Pilgrimage Scenes from the Camino Francés to Santiago de Compostela; High Arctic Extreme Science: Environmental Research from the Trans-Ellesmere Island Ski Expedition; and Ultreia! Onward! Progress of the Pilgrim. He is also the author of Veniceland Atlantis: The Bleak Future of the World’s Favorite City; Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design; Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary Ecocide in Southern Iraq; Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water; and Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagement with Water.