American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy - Softcover

Fox, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299106349 ISBN 13: 9780299106348

Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

John Muir and His Legacy is at once a biography of this remarkable man&;the first work to make unrestricted use of all of Muir&;s manuscripts and personal papers&;and a history of the century-old fight to save the natural environment. Stephen Fox traces the conservation movement's diverse, colorful, and tumultuous history, from the successful campaign to establish Yosemite National Park in 1890 to the movement's present day concerns of nuclear waste and acid rain.
    Conservation has run a cyclical course, Fox contends, from its origins in the 1890s when it was the province of amateurs, to its takeover by professionals with quasi-scientific notions, and back, in the 1960s to its original impetus. Since then man&;s view of himself as &;the last endangered species&; has sparked an explosion of public interest in environmentalism.
    First published in 1981 by Little, Brown, this book was warmly received as both a biography of Muir and a history of the American conservation movement. It is now available in this new Wisconsin paperback edition.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0299106349
• ISBN 13: 9780299106348
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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