num_pages: 624
description: Once Eden is lost can it ever be recovered? In this magisterial contribution to the literature of ecology and the environment our nostalgia for the myth of paradise - the primeval self-sufficient nurturing garden where mankind was born - is the starting point of a brilliant inquiry into what our place in Nature has been and ought to be.An encyclopedic survey of efforts to heal the dangerous rift between culture and nature The Ecology of Eden is a landmark work - one that is enormously suggestive informative and a joy to read.
language: English
title: The Ecology of Eden: Humans, Nature and Human Nature
publisher: PICADOR