LEADER 04504nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910973774503321 005 20251116222419.0 010 $a9780295989846 010 $a029598984X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780295989846 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055016 035 $a(EBL)3444253 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488453 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316809 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488453 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10450512 035 $a(PQKB)11662670 035 $a(OCoLC)704517505 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse7059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444253 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438020 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL810713 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444253 035 $a(DE-B1597)725621 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295989846 035 $a(Perlego)723514 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0039665 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055016 100 $a20060208d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWindshield wilderness $ecars, roads, and nature in Washington's national parks /$fDavid Louter ; foreword by William Cronon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSeattle $cUniversity of Washington Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aWeyerhaeuser environmental books 300 $aBased on: Windshield wilderness : the automobile and the meaning of national parks in Washington State / David B. Louter. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. 311 08$a9780295990217 311 08$a029599021X 311 08$a9780295986067 311 08$a0295986069 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-225) and index. 327 $a""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"" 330 $aIn his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines.With a lively style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of Washington State?s national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret their meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places.Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in national parks. 410 0$aWeyerhaeuser environmental book. 606 $aRoads$xEnvironmental aspects$zWashington (State) 606 $aNational parks and reserves$xPublic use$zWashington (State) 606 $aNational parks and reserves$zWashington (State)$xManagement 606 $aAutomobiles$xEnvironmental aspects$zWashington (State) 615 0$aRoads$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aNational parks and reserves$xPublic use 615 0$aNational parks and reserves$xManagement. 615 0$aAutomobiles$xEnvironmental aspects 676 $a333.78/3 700 $aLouter$b David$01183730 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973774503321 996 $aWindshield wilderness$94550728 997 $aUNINA