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The idea of wilderness : from prehistory to the age of ecology
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- Creator
- Max Oelschlaeger
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991
- Physical Details
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- xii, 477 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300191271, 9780300053708, 0300191278, 0300048513, 9780300048513, 0300053703
- OCLC
- ocm22308464, ocn951623290
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The idea of wilderness : from paleolithic to neolithic culture -- Ancient Mediterranean ideas of humankind and nature : the passage from myth to history -- The alchemy of modernism : the transmutation of wilderness into nature -- Wild nature : critical responses to modernism -- Henry David Thoreau : philosopher of the wilderness -- John Muir : wilderness sage -- Aldo Leopold and the age of ecology -- The idea of wilderness in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder -- Contemporary wilderness philosophy : from resourcism to deep ecology -- Cosmos and wilderness : a postmodern wilderness philosophy