Wilderness and the American mind
By: Roderick Frazier Nash ; foreword by Char Miller
Contributors: Miller, Char, 1951- writer of foreword
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780300190380
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Nature conservation; Umweltbewusstsein; Naturraum; Civilization; Values; Naturphilosophie; History; Wildnis; Ecology; Nature; Social aspects; Philosophy of nature; Environmental conditions; Wilderness areas; Effect of human beings on; Humanökologie; Human ecology; Nature and civilization
Description: A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Char Miller; title: Preface to the fifth edition : fifty years in the wilderness; title: Prologue : the condition of wilderness; title: Old World roots of opinion; title: A wilderness condition; title: The romantic wilderness; title: The American wilderness; title: Henry David Thoreau : philosopher; title: Preserve the wilderness!; title: Wilderness preserved; title: John Muir : publicizer; title: The wilderness cult; title: Hetch Hetchy; title: Aldo Leopold : prophet; title: Decisions for permanence; title: Toward a philosophy of wilderness; title: Alaska; title: The irony of victory; title: The international perspective; title: Epilogue to the fifth edition : island civilization.