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Title: Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0-520-22066-8 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A thrilling excursion into the heart of the West
Comment: If you have an open and inquisitive mind, no matter what your political outlook, you will enjoy this exploration of western America and our relationship with this unique landscape. Solnit weaves discussions about the settlement of the west by Euro-Americans, native American rights, nuclear testing, and other critical issues, with ruminations about H.D. Thoreau, John Muir, country music, landscape painters, and other intriguing topics. This is an excellent book about an important subject that will delight you if you let it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Savage Dreams
Comment: This book is classic eco paganistic 1/2 truths and full tripe. Solnit carries on a dreamy and irresponsible massive 'feel good' opinion piece about the handfull of people harmed by our successfull development of our deffensive nuclear weapons. The author fails to note that our development and limited use of our weapons saved millions of lives.
If you are currently a eco pagan, here is more for your religion. If you want a full account of the history of our deffensive development of nuecs, don't waste your time reading this novel. However, if you want further insight into the basis that drives our planet's new pagan eco religion, then this book will help you to understanding their factualy fictionist journey into politics.
Rating: 5
Summary: No romanticism here
Comment: Solnit's juxtaposition of the insidious nuclear poisoning of Nevada to the making of Yosemite National Park (that she shows has been "loved to death" since it was first discovered by whites more than 150 years ago)makes this book a must for all environmentalists. Solnit deals directly with themes of conquest and redemption in historic efforts to both tame and use these lands. Readers gain specific understanding about two places that are, after all, national icons. However, the deeper themes so well-developed in this book are being played out no less dramtically all across the country.
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Title: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0670031763 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0140286012 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 0820324930 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 1560255773 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland by Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 1859841864 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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