No Man's Garden
Subtitle: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press; Island Press [for] Shearwater Books
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781559634656
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: 19th century; Sociology, Social Studies; The Environment; United States; Naturalists; Environmental Science; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Environmental Studies; American English; USA; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Science / Environmental Science; Thoreau, Henry David,; Authors, American; 1817-1862; 19th century; Biography; Civilization; Knowledge; Natural history
First sentence: ON AUGUST 31, 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his home in Concord, Massachusetts, and went to the woods of Maine to discover wilderness for himself, rather than take other people's word for what it was like and what it meant.
Description: "In No Man's Garden, Daniel Botkin takes a fresh look at the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau, setting the stage for a new way of viewing our relationship to nature and how we should manage our place on the planet. He offers an insightful reinterpretation of Thoreau as a man who loved wildness, but who found it in the woods and swamps on the outskirts of town as easily as in the remote forests of Maine, and who valued equally the pleasures of human civilization and the natural world.".

"No Man's Garden presents a vital challenge to the conventional wisdom of both environmentalism and its critics, and will be must reading for anyone interested in developing a deeper understanding of the relationship between people and the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.