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Conserving words : how American nature writers shaped the environmental movement / Daniel J. Philippon.

Title
Conserving words : how American nature writers shaped the environmental movement / Daniel J. Philippon.
Author
Philippon, Daniel J.
Publication
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.

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Description
xv, 373 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
How American nature writers shaped the environmental movement
Subject
  • Natural history literature > United States > History
  • Environmentalism > United States > History
  • Nature writers
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 317-357) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: The Ecology of Influence -- Preserving the Pieces: Progressive Conservation -- The Closing of the Frontier: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club -- The Garden, You, and I: Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society -- Our National Parks: John Muir and the Sierra Club -- Protecting the Planet: Modern Environmentalism -- The Call of the Wild: Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society -- Toward Ecotopia: Edward Abbey and Earth First! -- Conclusion: The Island as Metaphor.
ISBN
0820325767 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2003016938
OCLC
  • 52876182
  • SCSB-10414296
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library