American Conservation Movement: John Muir And His Legacy

Fox, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0299106349 / ISBN 13: 9780299106348

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.12T4Q

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: American Conservation Movement: John Muir ...
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good