Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Haven Yale University Press, 2014. Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxii, 409 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780300190380 (pbk.)
- 0300190387 (pbk.)
- Nature conservation -- United States
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Nature -- Social aspects -- United States
- Philosophy of nature -- United States
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States
- Human ecology -- United States -- History
- Values -- United States
- Wilderness areas -- United States
- United States -- Environmental conditions -- History
- United States -- Civilization
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- 333.78/20973
- E169.1 .N37 2014
- GE150 .N368 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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