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Original Essays | November 9, 2009

Jesse Bullington: IMG Abash'd the Devil Stood

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I don't believe in evil. It's a word I use, certainly, because words are shortcuts and we all take the short way round from time to time, but that's... Continue »
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Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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Book News Annotation:

For his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Kansas (no date noted), Sutter (history , U. of Georgia) investigated how a nation founded on antipathy for the wilderness had come to cherish and protect it less than two centuries later. He found the conventional answers convincing but insufficient. Digging deeper, he noticed how early calls for wilderness preservation condemned automobiles, roads, and the US government's eagerness to modernize and mechanize roadless areas. Here, he says, is where the modern wilderness movement was ignited.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780295982199
Subtitle:
How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
Introduction:
Cronon, William
Introduction:
Cronon, William
Author:
Sutter, Paul S.
Author:
Cronon, William
Publisher:
University of Washington Press
Location:
Seattle
Subject:
Automobiles
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Subject:
Nature conservation
Subject:
Wilderness areas
Subject:
Conservationists
Subject:
Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books (Hardcover)
Series Volume:
2002-6
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
360
Dimensions:
9.52x6.42x1.12 in. 1.65 lbs.
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