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Wilderness and the American mind

Roderick Nash (Author)
Describes how man through farming, industry, clearance of forests, and population growth began to change the earth and bring about critical shortages of natural resources
Print Book, English, 1973
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 1973
xvi, 300 pages ; 21 cm
9780300016482, 9780300016499, 0300016484, 0300016492
652790
Prologue : The condition of wilderness
Old world roots of opinion
A wilderness condition
The romantic wilderness
The American wilderness
Henry David Thoreu: philosopher
Preserve the wilderness
Wilderness preserved
John Muir: publicizer
The wilderness cult
Hetch Hetchy
Aldo Leopold: prophet
Decisions permanence
Wilderness, culture, and counterculture
Epilogue : The irony of victory