TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nash,Roderick
AU  - Miller,Char
TI  - Wilderness and the American mind
SN  - 9780300190380 (pbk.)
U1  - 333.7820 NAS 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Nature conservation
KW  - United States
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Nature
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - History
KW  - Values
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Ecology
KW  - idszbzes
KW  - Wilderness areas
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index.
TB 502/ 2019
Rs.1823/-; 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
N2  - A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective
ER  -