Wilderness and the American Mind - Softcover

Nash, Roderick Frazier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300190387 ISBN 13: 9780300190380

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

“The Book of Genesis for conservationists”—Dave Foreman

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 influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.”
 
For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment.

About this title

About the Author:

Roderick Frazier Nash is professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is regarded as one of the founders of environmental history in the United States. Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College.

Review:

"One of those rare works that combines exemplary scholarship and readability."—Washington Post Book World (on an earlier edition)

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300190387
• ISBN 13: 9780300190380
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 440