Wilderness and the American mind
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 infl...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
2014.
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| Edición: | 5th ed |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4051500x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
