Driven wild : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / Paul S. Su...
Driven wild : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / Paul S. Su...
Driven wild : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / Paul S. Sutter ; foreword by William Cronon.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2002.
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N333.72/ 139
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Foreword: Why Worry about Roads / William Cronon -- 1. The Problem of the Wilderness -- 2. Knowing Nature through Leisure: Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar Years -- 3. A Blank Spot on the Map: Aldo Leopold -- 4. Advertising the Wild: Robert Sterling Yard -- 5. Wilderness as Regional Plan: Bent...
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Publisher
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2002.
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Washington (State)
Date Published
c2002.
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"In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders - Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy...
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Driven wild : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / Paul S. Sutter ; foreword by William Cronon.
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-331).
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c2002.
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N333.72/ 139
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74Vv0Xo6Xgp3
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0295982195
9780295982199
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333.720973
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991015816929702626
