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Exceptional mountains : a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes / / O. Alan Weltzien



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Autore: Weltzien O. Alan (Oliver Alan) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Exceptional mountains : a cultural history of the Pacific Northwest volcanoes / / O. Alan Weltzien Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Disciplina: 917.95
Soggetto topico: Volcanoes - Social aspects - Northwest, Pacific - History
Mountains - Social aspects - Northwest, Pacific - History
Regionalism - Northwest, Pacific - History
Outdoor recreation - Environmental aspects - Northwest, Pacific - History
Mountaineering - Environmental aspects - Northwest, Pacific - History
Consumers - Northwest, Pacific - Psychology - History
Nature - Effect of human beings on - Northwest, Pacific - History
Environmental policy - Northwest, Pacific - History
Soggetto geografico: Northwest, Pacific Geography
Northwest, Pacific Environmental conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. The Legacy of Exceptionalism -- 2. Standard Routes, Standard Highways -- 3. Cities and Their Volcanoes -- 4. Green Consumerism and the Volcanoes -- 5. Wilderness and Volcanoes -- 6. Volcanoes and Crowds -- Epilogue.
Sommario/riassunto: "Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and with it the narratives we compose about ourselves. Exceptional Mountains is a cultural history of the Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship between these volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest. O. Alan Weltzien demonstrates how mountaineering is but one conspicuous example of the outdoor recreation industry's unrestricted and problematic growth. He explores the implications of our assumptions that there are no limits to our outdoor recreation habits and that access to the highest mountains should include amenities for affluent consumers. Each chapter probes the mountain-based regional ethos and the concomitant sense of privilege and entitlement from different vantages to illuminate the consumerist mind-set as a reductive--and deeply problematic--version of experience and identity in and around some of the nation's most striking mountains"--
Titolo autorizzato: Exceptional mountains  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8032-9040-3
0-8032-9042-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910467745203321
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