(Ebook) Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Frazier Nash. Forword by Char Miller. ISBN 9780300190380, 0300190387

(Ebook) Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Frazier Nash. Forword by Char Miller. ISBN 9780300190380, 0300190387

Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists.”For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller’s foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment.“’Wilderness, in the final analysis, is a state of mind,’ and the author critically describes man’s attitudes toward a state of nature he feared, romanticized, felt he had to conquer and change, wished to preserve, used as a refuge from an unsatisfactory culture, and in most cases despoiled. The concepts are traced from the ancient symbol of the Garden of Eden to our present conservation controversies.” (Books of the Southwest)