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Wilderness and the American mind
- Title
- Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash.
- Author
- Nash, Roderick
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Miller, Char, 1951-
- Description
- xxii, 409 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
- Subjects
- Frontier and pioneer life > United States
- United States > Environmental conditions > History
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > United States
- United States > Civilization
- Values > United States
- Nature conservation > United States
- Human ecology > United States > History
- Philosophy of nature > United States
- Nature > Social aspects > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-1107
- ISBN
- 9780300190380 (pbk.)
- 0300190387 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013949305
- OCLC
- 870533469
- Author
- Nash, Roderick, author.
- Title
- Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
- Edition
- Fifth edition / foreword by Char Miller.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392) and index.
- Added Author
- Miller, Char, 1951- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-1107