04504nam 2200745Ia 450 991097377450332120251116222419.09780295989846029598984X10.1515/9780295989846(CKB)2560000000055016(EBL)3444253(SSID)ssj0000488453(PQKBManifestationID)11316809(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488453(PQKBWorkID)10450512(PQKB)11662670(OCoLC)704517505(MdBmJHUP)muse7059(Au-PeEL)EBL3444253(CaPaEBR)ebr10438020(CaONFJC)MIL810713(MiAaPQ)EBC3444253(DE-B1597)725621(DE-B1597)9780295989846(Perlego)723514(iGPub)CSPLUS0039665(EXLCZ)99256000000005501620060208d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWindshield wilderness cars, roads, and nature in Washington's national parks /David Louter ; foreword by William Cronon1st ed.Seattle University of Washington Pressc20061 online resource (288 p.)Weyerhaeuser environmental booksBased on: Windshield wilderness : the automobile and the meaning of national parks in Washington State / David B. Louter. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000.9780295990217 029599021X 9780295986067 0295986069 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and index.""Contents ""; ""Maps""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Nature as We See It""; ""1 / Glaciers and Gasoline: Mount Rainier as a Windshield Wilderness""; ""2 / The Highway in Nature: Mount Rainier and the National Park Service""; ""3 / Wilderness with a View: Olympic and the New Roadless Park""; ""4 / A Road Runs Through It: A Wilderness Park for the North Cascades""; ""5 / Wilderness Threshold: North Cascades and a New Concept of National Parks""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines.With a lively style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of Washington State’s national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret their meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places.Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in national parks.Weyerhaeuser environmental book.RoadsEnvironmental aspectsWashington (State)National parks and reservesPublic useWashington (State)National parks and reservesWashington (State)ManagementAutomobilesEnvironmental aspectsWashington (State)RoadsEnvironmental aspectsNational parks and reservesPublic useNational parks and reservesManagement.AutomobilesEnvironmental aspects333.78/3Louter David1183730MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973774503321Windshield wilderness4550728UNINA