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Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / Rebecca Solnit.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solnit, Rebecca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscapes--West (U.S.)--History.
- Landscapes.
- Yosemite National Park (Calif.).
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (439 p.)
- Edition:
- Twentieth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."-Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
- Acknowledgments
- From Hell to Breakfast
- Like Moths to a Candle
- April Fool's Day
- Trees
- Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes
- Golden Hours and Iron County
- Ruby Valley and the Ranch
- The War
- Keeping Pace with the Tortoise
- The Rainbow
- Spectators
- Framing the View
- Vanishing (Remaining)
- Fire in the Garden
- The Name of the Snake
- Up the River of Mercy
- Savage's Grave
- Full Circle
- Afterword to the 1999 Edition
- Sources
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520957923
- 052095792X
- OCLC:
- 876343009
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