Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.
Nash, Roderick, author.; Miller, Char, 1951- writer of foreword.
2014
E169.1 .N37 2014eb
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Title Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.
Author Nash, Roderick, author.
Edition Fifth edition.
ISBN 9780300153507 (electronic book)
0300153503 (electronic book)
9781306370493 (electronic book)
1306370493 (electronic book)
9780300190380
0300190387
Published New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages)
Call Number E169.1 .N37 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.78/2/0973
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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