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Title: The Great New Wilderness Debate by J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson ISBN: 0-8203-1984-8 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wilderness is so important to living and being an American !
Comment: If you had to pick one volume to capture some of the greatest thinking on wilderness, this is probably your single best choice. Almost all of the key ideas and influential writers are included. In fact, for most readers, there is probably too much here ! Over 40 wonderful, dense, and thought-provoking articles from all eras of wilderness thought !! 7 of the contributions are new to this volume.
The title of the volume refers to the recent challenges to the idea of wilderness, and therefore the book starts with the received notion of wilderness. There are wonderful selections from well known U.S. wilderness writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Bob Marshall, and Aldo Leopold. There are also important ideas from Jonathon Edwards, Teddy Roosevelt, and Sigurd Olsen -- each representing important components of the wilderness idea such as spiritualism, redemption, sacred american virtues of the frontier, etc.
Then J. Baird Callicott, William Cronon and an assortment of postmodern and postcolonial scholars take this 'romantic' notion of wilderness to task. The idea of wilderness is seen as dualistic, ethnocentric, racist, and an attempt to 'freeze frame' nature. Defenders of the wilderness idea then include Reed Noss, Dave Foreman, and others. To some this debate is now a little weary, but it was a high profile and contentious discussion that is still doing the rounds today.
There are also some hidden gems in this volume, and it is to those that I return most readily. Some examples are Fabienne Bayet's story from the Aboriginal communities of Australia, Jack Turner's call for the wild, Gary Snyder's more recent reflections on Turtle Island, and Tom Birch's piece on the incarceration of wilderness. These are cutting edge ideas that are taking many of today's wilderness thinkers beyond the postmodern debate into tackling questions of ecological restoration and the role of wilderness management.
In summary, a solid and thorough discussion of the idea of wilderness. For those of us living and working in the U.S., wilderness is a crucial part of what it means to be American - the ideas in this volume deserve a large readership. But, don't expect to read from cover to cover - this is a collection to which you will continue to return and find great insight and delight.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Wilderness Philosophy Buffet
Comment: This is a useful sampler of wilderness philosophy. It's well balanced account of American debate of wilderness and what "wilderness" and "natural" really mean. It contains influential authors such as Aldo Leopold, William Cronon and John Muir. It also has some important reports relating to the history of wilderness management like the "Leopold Report". I've been using it as a starting point for research and it has been a good spring board for finding good authors and diversity of opinion.
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Title: Wilderness and the American Mind, Fourth Edition by Roderick Frazier Nash, Roderick Nash ISBN: 0300091222 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon ISBN: 0393315118 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology by Max Oelschlaeger ISBN: 0300053703 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Wilderness Management: Stewardship and Protection of Resources and Values by John C. Hendee, Chad P. Dawson ISBN: 1555918557 Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (History of American Thought and Culture) by Roderick Frazier Nash ISBN: 0299118444 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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