Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.
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TextPublisher: London Yale University Press, 2014Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxii, 409 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- 9780300190380 (pbk.)
- Nature conservation -- United States
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Nature -- Social aspects
- Philosophy of nature
- -- Effect of human beings on
- Human ecology -- History
- Values
- Civilization
- Ecology
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Philosophy of nature
- Wilderness areas -- United States
- Nature conservation -- United States
- United States -- Environmental conditions -- History
- United States -- Civilization
- United States
- 333.7820 NAS
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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.
A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
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