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Wilderness and the American mind

Title
Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.
ISBN
0300153503
1306370493
9780300153507
9781306370493
0300190387
9780300190380
Edition
Fifth edition.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Access and use
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Summary
Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books that changed our world," and it has been called the "Book of Genesis for environmentalists." For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller's foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Nash, Roderick Frazier. Wilderness and the American Mind. Yale University Press 2014
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / by Char Miller
Preface to the fifth edition : fifty years in the wilderness
Prologue : the condition of wilderness
Old World roots of opinion
A wilderness condition
The romantic wilderness
The American wilderness
Henry David Thoreau : philosopher
Preserve the wilderness!
Wilderness preserved
John Muir : publicizer
The wilderness cult
Hetch Hetchy
Aldo Leopold : prophet
Decisions for permanence
Toward a philosophy of wilderness
Alaska
The irony of victory
The international perspective
Epilogue to the fifth edition : island civilization.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
History.
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