The study area is surrounded by large expanses (>200 km) of mainly continuous forest to the west, north and east.
Given its subject and considerable expanse, the book's emphases are telling.
The sounds around you give little clue to the expanse of the space, and visual obstacles gradually obscure the sight line.
As a resource, its vast and wild expanses are to be explored, gazetted and systematically exploited.
When we no longer hear distant sound through the roar of the traffic, we aurally re-define the expanse of the landscape.
In laterite outcrops, where the influence of the rains is hardly felt, large expanses of small bamboos of stunted appearance are met with.
But even if it is there, it is not spatially there in the way that colour patches are stretched over spatial expanses.
The platform is surrounded by a vast expanse of darkened stage.
