Driven wild [[electronic resource] ] : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / / Paul S. Sutter ; foreword by William Cronon |
Autore | Sutter Paul |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7820973 |
Collana | Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
Soggetto topico |
Nature conservation - United States - History
Wilderness areas - United States - History Conservationists - United States - History Automobiles - Environmental aspects - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-295-98990-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Illustrations follow pages 48 and 112 --Foreword: Why Worry about Roads, by William Cronon vii --Acknowledgments xiii --1. The Problem of the Wilderness 3 --2. Knowing Nature through Leisure: -- Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar Years 19 --3. A Blank Spot on the Map: -- Aldo Leopold 54 --4. Advertising the Wild: -- Robert Sterling Yard 100 --5. Wilderness as Regional Plan: -- Benton MacKaye 142 --6. The Freedom of the Wilderness: -- Bob Marshall 194 --7. Epilogue: A Living Wilderness 239 --Notes 264 --Sources 308 --Index 332. |
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Driven wild [[electronic resource] ] : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / / Paul S. Sutter ; foreword by William Cronon |
Autore | Sutter Paul |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7820973 |
Collana | Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
Soggetto topico |
Nature conservation - United States - History
Wilderness areas - United States - History Conservationists - United States - History Automobiles - Environmental aspects - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-295-98990-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Illustrations follow pages 48 and 112 --Foreword: Why Worry about Roads, by William Cronon vii --Acknowledgments xiii --1. The Problem of the Wilderness 3 --2. Knowing Nature through Leisure: -- Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar Years 19 --3. A Blank Spot on the Map: -- Aldo Leopold 54 --4. Advertising the Wild: -- Robert Sterling Yard 100 --5. Wilderness as Regional Plan: -- Benton MacKaye 142 --6. The Freedom of the Wilderness: -- Bob Marshall 194 --7. Epilogue: A Living Wilderness 239 --Notes 264 --Sources 308 --Index 332. |
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Driven wild [[electronic resource] ] : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement / / Paul S. Sutter ; foreword by William Cronon |
Autore | Sutter Paul |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.7820973 |
Collana | Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
Soggetto topico |
Nature conservation - United States - History
Wilderness areas - United States - History Conservationists - United States - History Automobiles - Environmental aspects - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-295-98990-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Illustrations follow pages 48 and 112 --Foreword: Why Worry about Roads, by William Cronon vii --Acknowledgments xiii --1. The Problem of the Wilderness 3 --2. Knowing Nature through Leisure: -- Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar Years 19 --3. A Blank Spot on the Map: -- Aldo Leopold 54 --4. Advertising the Wild: -- Robert Sterling Yard 100 --5. Wilderness as Regional Plan: -- Benton MacKaye 142 --6. The Freedom of the Wilderness: -- Bob Marshall 194 --7. Epilogue: A Living Wilderness 239 --Notes 264 --Sources 308 --Index 332. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808333903321 |
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Pilgrimage to the national parks : religion and nature in the United States / / Lynn Ross-Bryant |
Autore | Ross-Bryant Lynn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/80978 |
Collana | Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism |
Soggetto topico |
National parks and reserves - Social aspects - United States - History
National parks and reserves - West (U.S.) - History Nature - Religious aspects - History Pilgrims and pilgrimages - United States - History Wilderness areas - United States - History Sacred space - United States - History National characteristics, American - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-09446-8
1-283-84447-8 1-136-20726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Pilgrimage to the National ParksReligion and Nature in the United States; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Our National Parks; Religion; The Nature of Nature; Pilgrimage and Tourism; Myth and Ritual; Contestation and Heterogeneity; Storied Sacred Space; The Evolution of the National Parks as Pilgrimage Sites; America's Best Idea; Part IThe New World; Introduction to Part I: America Comes of Age; 1 Yosemite: New World Sublimity; The Newness of the New World; The American Experience in Yosemite; The Art of Perception; Preserved for the People
2 The Dream of Yellowstone: Progress in the Pristine LandWonderland; The Tools of Art and Science in the Construction of Yellowstone; Civilizing Nature; Nature and Technology; Part IIWilderness and Beyond; Introduction to Part II: The Age of Anxiety; 3 Seeing America in Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks; Creating the "Titan of Chasms"; Living Ruins; The Great Unknown; Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Ages; Preservation and Conquest in Glacier National Park; Reenacting the Strenuuous Life; Construction of a Frontier; The Glacier Pilgrimage; Indians and the National Parks 4 The National Park IdeaPrelude to the Establishment of the National Park Service; Selling the National Park Idea; A Second Origin Story; Automobile Pilgrimage-An Alternative Narrative; Rituals of the Pilgrimage: America around the Campfire; Part IIICompeting Constructions of Wilderness; Introduction to Part III: Competing Constructions of Wilderness; 5 Mythic and Scientific America; "Laboratory Out-of-doors"; Emergence of Alternative Narratives; The Culmination of the Mather-Albright Tradition; Change and Tradition in the Parks; Preservation "for the People"; 6 The Wilderness Idea Wilderness BeginningsMythic America: Wilderness as Eden and the Frontier; Ansel Adams' Photography and the Religion of Nature; Rethinking Nature and Humans; 7 Unbounded Possibilities; Reconceptualization of Space; A New Role for Science; Imagining Ecosystems; Alaska: Inhabited Wilderness; Reimagining Nature and Culture; Epilogue: Pilgrimage and the Future of the National Parks; Change in Paradise; The Dynamics of Change; A Vision for the Future; Pilgrimage in the Gaps; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462717103321 |
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Pilgrimage to the national parks : religion and nature in the United States / / Lynn Ross-Bryant |
Autore | Ross-Bryant Lynn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/80978 |
Collana | Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism |
Soggetto topico |
National parks and reserves - Social aspects - United States - History
National parks and reserves - West (U.S.) - History Nature - Religious aspects - History Pilgrims and pilgrimages - United States - History Wilderness areas - United States - History Sacred space - United States - History National characteristics, American - History |
ISBN |
1-136-20725-2
0-203-09446-8 1-283-84447-8 1-136-20726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Pilgrimage to the National ParksReligion and Nature in the United States; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Our National Parks; Religion; The Nature of Nature; Pilgrimage and Tourism; Myth and Ritual; Contestation and Heterogeneity; Storied Sacred Space; The Evolution of the National Parks as Pilgrimage Sites; America's Best Idea; Part IThe New World; Introduction to Part I: America Comes of Age; 1 Yosemite: New World Sublimity; The Newness of the New World; The American Experience in Yosemite; The Art of Perception; Preserved for the People
2 The Dream of Yellowstone: Progress in the Pristine LandWonderland; The Tools of Art and Science in the Construction of Yellowstone; Civilizing Nature; Nature and Technology; Part IIWilderness and Beyond; Introduction to Part II: The Age of Anxiety; 3 Seeing America in Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks; Creating the "Titan of Chasms"; Living Ruins; The Great Unknown; Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Ages; Preservation and Conquest in Glacier National Park; Reenacting the Strenuuous Life; Construction of a Frontier; The Glacier Pilgrimage; Indians and the National Parks 4 The National Park IdeaPrelude to the Establishment of the National Park Service; Selling the National Park Idea; A Second Origin Story; Automobile Pilgrimage-An Alternative Narrative; Rituals of the Pilgrimage: America around the Campfire; Part IIICompeting Constructions of Wilderness; Introduction to Part III: Competing Constructions of Wilderness; 5 Mythic and Scientific America; "Laboratory Out-of-doors"; Emergence of Alternative Narratives; The Culmination of the Mather-Albright Tradition; Change and Tradition in the Parks; Preservation "for the People"; 6 The Wilderness Idea Wilderness BeginningsMythic America: Wilderness as Eden and the Frontier; Ansel Adams' Photography and the Religion of Nature; Rethinking Nature and Humans; 7 Unbounded Possibilities; Reconceptualization of Space; A New Role for Science; Imagining Ecosystems; Alaska: Inhabited Wilderness; Reimagining Nature and Culture; Epilogue: Pilgrimage and the Future of the National Parks; Change in Paradise; The Dynamics of Change; A Vision for the Future; Pilgrimage in the Gaps; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786302103321 |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
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Pilgrimage to the national parks : religion and nature in the United States / / Lynn Ross-Bryant |
Autore | Ross-Bryant Lynn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/80978 |
Collana | Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism |
Soggetto topico |
National parks and reserves - Social aspects - United States - History
National parks and reserves - West (U.S.) - History Nature - Religious aspects - History Pilgrims and pilgrimages - United States - History Wilderness areas - United States - History Sacred space - United States - History National characteristics, American - History |
ISBN |
1-136-20725-2
0-203-09446-8 1-283-84447-8 1-136-20726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Pilgrimage to the National ParksReligion and Nature in the United States; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Our National Parks; Religion; The Nature of Nature; Pilgrimage and Tourism; Myth and Ritual; Contestation and Heterogeneity; Storied Sacred Space; The Evolution of the National Parks as Pilgrimage Sites; America's Best Idea; Part IThe New World; Introduction to Part I: America Comes of Age; 1 Yosemite: New World Sublimity; The Newness of the New World; The American Experience in Yosemite; The Art of Perception; Preserved for the People
2 The Dream of Yellowstone: Progress in the Pristine LandWonderland; The Tools of Art and Science in the Construction of Yellowstone; Civilizing Nature; Nature and Technology; Part IIWilderness and Beyond; Introduction to Part II: The Age of Anxiety; 3 Seeing America in Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks; Creating the "Titan of Chasms"; Living Ruins; The Great Unknown; Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Ages; Preservation and Conquest in Glacier National Park; Reenacting the Strenuuous Life; Construction of a Frontier; The Glacier Pilgrimage; Indians and the National Parks 4 The National Park IdeaPrelude to the Establishment of the National Park Service; Selling the National Park Idea; A Second Origin Story; Automobile Pilgrimage-An Alternative Narrative; Rituals of the Pilgrimage: America around the Campfire; Part IIICompeting Constructions of Wilderness; Introduction to Part III: Competing Constructions of Wilderness; 5 Mythic and Scientific America; "Laboratory Out-of-doors"; Emergence of Alternative Narratives; The Culmination of the Mather-Albright Tradition; Change and Tradition in the Parks; Preservation "for the People"; 6 The Wilderness Idea Wilderness BeginningsMythic America: Wilderness as Eden and the Frontier; Ansel Adams' Photography and the Religion of Nature; Rethinking Nature and Humans; 7 Unbounded Possibilities; Reconceptualization of Space; A New Role for Science; Imagining Ecosystems; Alaska: Inhabited Wilderness; Reimagining Nature and Culture; Epilogue: Pilgrimage and the Future of the National Parks; Change in Paradise; The Dynamics of Change; A Vision for the Future; Pilgrimage in the Gaps; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821490303321 |
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Wilderness forever [[electronic resource] ] : Howard Zahniser and the path to the Wilderness Act / / Mark Harvey |
Autore | Harvey Mark W. T (Mark William Thornton) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, Wash., : University of Washington Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.72092 |
Collana | A Weyerhaeuser environmental classic |
Soggetto topico |
Conservationists - United States
Wilderness areas - United States - History Environmental sciences Nature conservation Wilderness areas |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-295-98982-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Boyhood in Pennsylvania""; ""2. A Career in Conservation""; ""3. Finding a New Path""; ""4. Taking the Reins""; ""5. Recreation and Wilderness""; ""6. A Summer in the West""; ""7. The Vulnerable Wilderness""; ""8. Keeping It Wild""; ""9. At Work in the Capital""; ""10. In Search of Community""; ""11. The Challenge of Reclassification""; ""12. Saving a Canal and a Monument""; ""13. Untrammeled by Man""; ""14. Wilderness in Perpetuity""; ""15. The Constant Advocate""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""
""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458758503321 |
Harvey Mark W. T (Mark William Thornton)
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Wilderness forever [[electronic resource] ] : Howard Zahniser and the path to the Wilderness Act / / Mark Harvey |
Autore | Harvey Mark W. T (Mark William Thornton) |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, Wash., : University of Washington Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.72092 |
Collana | A Weyerhaeuser environmental classic |
Soggetto topico |
Conservationists - United States
Wilderness areas - United States - History Environmental sciences Nature conservation Wilderness areas |
ISBN | 0-295-98982-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Boyhood in Pennsylvania""; ""2. A Career in Conservation""; ""3. Finding a New Path""; ""4. Taking the Reins""; ""5. Recreation and Wilderness""; ""6. A Summer in the West""; ""7. The Vulnerable Wilderness""; ""8. Keeping It Wild""; ""9. At Work in the Capital""; ""10. In Search of Community""; ""11. The Challenge of Reclassification""; ""12. Saving a Canal and a Monument""; ""13. Untrammeled by Man""; ""14. Wilderness in Perpetuity""; ""15. The Constant Advocate""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""
""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791684203321 |
Harvey Mark W. T (Mark William Thornton)
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Seattle, Wash., : University of Washington Press | ||
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Wilderness forever : Howard Zahniser and the path to the Wilderness Act / / Mark Harvey |
Autore | Harvey Mark W. T (Mark William Thornton) |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle, Wash., : University of Washington Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.72092 |
Collana | A Weyerhaeuser environmental classic |
Soggetto topico |
Conservationists - United States
Wilderness areas - United States - History Environmental sciences Nature conservation Wilderness areas |
ISBN | 0-295-98982-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Boyhood in Pennsylvania""; ""2. A Career in Conservation""; ""3. Finding a New Path""; ""4. Taking the Reins""; ""5. Recreation and Wilderness""; ""6. A Summer in the West""; ""7. The Vulnerable Wilderness""; ""8. Keeping It Wild""; ""9. At Work in the Capital""; ""10. In Search of Community""; ""11. The Challenge of Reclassification""; ""12. Saving a Canal and a Monument""; ""13. Untrammeled by Man""; ""14. Wilderness in Perpetuity""; ""15. The Constant Advocate""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""
""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825879803321 |
Harvey Mark W. T (Mark William Thornton)
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