Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Frazier Nash
Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Frazier Nash
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Wilderness and the American Mind
Fifth Edition

Author: Roderick Frazier Nash, Char Miller

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 14 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

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.

About Roderick Frazier Nash

Roderick Frazier Nash is professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is regarded as one of the founders of environmental history in the United States.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathryn on November 09, 2015

"Wilderness and the White Male American Mind" would be a more accurate title. The information that was included was highly informative, comprehensive, and interesting, but there were a LOT of voices missing. I definitely recommend this book as a starting place, but you'll need to read a lot more to......more

Goodreads review by Eugene on July 16, 2012

I had Rod Nash as a prof. Rod had me for a student. I lived (as many) a couple chapters of this book (between 1st ed. and 2; giving 3 and beyond as gifts), and I could have used this book at that time, because its first edition preceded me and the work of many others. Warning: this is not a popular......more

Goodreads review by Cat on August 22, 2007

I believed that this book would be an exploration of the concept of "wilderness" as it relates to the American mind. And it is, for about one hundred pages. Since this is a four hundred page bok, that leaves a lot of space to fill. I found the first two hundred pages to be interesting, the last two h......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on October 15, 2022

It’s a good reminder every time I’m made aware that our ideas aren’t our own, that our society’s ideas aren’t the only ones, that whatever current intellectual revolution we find ourselves in, it’s the temporary result of hundreds or thousands of cumulative years of ideas. If it comes in the form of......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on February 26, 2019

I learned a lot reading this classic. However, I think Nash hobbles himself in his more critical and philosophical phase, towards the end of the book, by according far too much weight to the suggestion that "wilderness" is a quality of perception - in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. Cartainly,......more