Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Roderick, Author.

Contributor:

Miller, Char.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--United States.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Nature conservation--United States.

Nature conservation.

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

Fifth edition

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Book of Genesis for conservationists"-Dave Foreman Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books that changed our world," and it has been called the "Book of Genesis for environmentalists." For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller's foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Miller, Char

Preface to the Fifth Edition

PROLOGUE

1. Old World Roots of Opinion

2. A Wilderness Condition

3. The Romantic Wilderness

4. The American Wilderness

5. Henry David Thoreau: Philosopher

6. Preserve the Wilderness!

7. Wilderness Preserved

8. John Muir: Publicizer

9. The Wilderness Cult

10. Hetch Hetchy

11. Aldo Leopold: Prophet

12. Decisions for Permanence

13. Toward a Philosophy of Wilderness

14. Alaska

15. The Irony of Victory

16. The International Perspective

Epilogue to the Fifth Edition: Island Civilization

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Book of Genesis for conservationists"--Cover.

"First edition published in 1967"--T. p. verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-15350-3

OCLC:

1143835085