Robert Lawrence France studies the history of cultural landscapes and the phenomenology of pilgrimage. He has taught at the universities of Harvard, Ca-Foscari Venice, and McGill, and is presently a professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. He has published over two hundred journal articles and more than twenty-five books. Among the latter are those concerning…

Long-distance walks

Going Over Old Ground: Pilgrimage and Perambulation on England’s Memory Road to Canterbury – Steps Toward a New Chorography (forthcoming)
Along the Way: Pilgrimage Scenes from the Camino Francés to Santiago de Compostela (bestcaminobook.com)
High Arctic Extreme Science: Environmental Research from the Trans-Ellesmere Island Ski Expedition
Ultreia! Onward! Progress of the Pilgrim

Environmental criticism and history

Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent
Veniceland Atlantis: The Bleak Future of the World’s Favorite City
Ethnozoology of Egede’s “Most Dreadful Monster,” the Foundational Sea Serpent
Thoreau and the Aquatic Cats of Concord: A Love Story
Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary Ecocide in Southern Iraq
Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water
Profitably Soaked: Thoreau’s Engagement with Water
Reflecting Heaven: Thoreau on Water
Reel Agri-Culture: Cinematic Portrayals of Farms, Farming, and Agrarian Life (in preparation)