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Man and nature
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882.
- Wild Gardens of Acadia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 472 pages)
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bar Harbor, Me The Wild Gardens of Acadia 1916
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""A Note on the Text""; ""Man and Nature""; ""Preface""; ""1. Introductory""; ""2. Transfer, Modification, and Extirpation of Vegetable and of Animal Species""; ""3. The Woods""; ""4. The Waters""; ""5. The Sands""; ""6. Projected or Possible Geographical Changes by Man""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- "The text...is the first edition, as published in New York by Charles Scribner in 1864."
- Includes bibliographical footnotes.
- ISBN:
- 9780674040632
- 0674040635
- OCLC:
- 923117234
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