Four Against the Wilderness
Author: Elmo Wortman
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Published: 1992-04-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780963205612
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Author: Elmo Wortman
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Published: 1992-04-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780963205612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elmo Wortman
Publisher: Top Notch Pub
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780963205605
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Worland District
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael P. Nelson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1488
ISBN-13: 0820331716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen years ago, The Great New Wilderness Debate began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied constructions of "wilderness" and the controversies that surround them. The Wilderness Debate Rages On will reinvigorate that conversation and usher in a second decade of debate. Like its predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices. The Wilderness Debate Rages On includes the best explorations of the concept of the concept of wilderness from the past decade, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or help us rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Maria Laitala are also given a voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding outside the academy. The writers represented in the anthology include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold, for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had these writers influenced the eventual development of federal wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative ecosystems and biodiversity.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 1456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James D. Cary
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Published: 2008-03-01
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780595713882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBirth of a nation. Growth of a nation. "From a Wilderness" is an anthology of four adventure novels rooted in a carefully researched history of the times. The first story begins at Jamestown as a man named Jonathan Strong watches with fascination as a cartwheeling Pocahontas leads a troop of English boys gleefully imitating her. In the second story, the setting shifts from Virginia to another place where newly arrived Europeans struggled against unforgiving terrain: the New England of the Puritans. It draws up a vivid reminder of the imprint that the Puritans stamped onto the American character. Next is an unexpectedly fascinating story that traces the profound influence of Adam Smith's role in molding the American economy and its values. And finally, the fourth novel is the story of the greatest real estate transaction in history, the Louisiana Purchase, told through the lives of two brothers whose clash could decide the fate of the young United States of America. For lovers of history, "From a Wilderness "will be an irresistible delight, a carefully researched saga that gives detail and color to the defining moments of a nation coming to be. For anyone who loves a great story, these four tales bring you into the world of man against environment, life in the frontier, noblemen, "savages," intrepid explorers, braggarts, liars, cowards, cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, and a whole passel of ordinary guys.
Author: Diana Fuss
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0593318986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dazzling collection of short stories about North American outdoor life—both classic and contemporary—from James Fenimore Cooper and Jack London to Margaret Atwood and Anthony Doerr and many more. The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild. From the nineteenth century’s Washington Irving (“Rip Van Winkle”) to the twenty-first century’s Ted Chiang (“The Great Silence”)—a panoramic view of wilderness fiction, from Gothic tales of mystery and suspense (“The Heroic Slave” by Frederick Douglass), to tales of danger and survival (“Walking Out” by David Quammen); from modern tales of retreat and solitude (“Happiness” by Ron Carlson), to never-before-told tales of our new reality—of environment and extinction (“the river” by adrienne maree brown): these are stories that reveal the many ways in which the American literary landscape has shaped—and is shaped by—our conceptions of the wild. Diana Fuss nimbly shows, in her introductory text and commentary throughout, the development of the wilderness story, from its emergence in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Young Goodman Brown”) and James Fenimore Cooper (“A Panther Tale”), to the height of its popularity in the stories of Jack London (“To Build a Fire”), to the environmentally conscious writing of T. C. Boyle (“After the Plague”) and Karen Russell (“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”). Among those whose work appears in the collection: Wallace Stegner, Annie Proulx, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Ray Bradbury.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 404
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