The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
Horizontal Yellow is a book about history and nature and humankind’s impact on nature in the Near Southwest, the region of yellowed grass stretching from the Rocky Mountains’ eastern range to Louisiana’s bayou country, and from southern Kansas to the Gulf Coast.
This small collection of essays by Finnish scholars establishes the basic tenets of environmental history as a field of inquiry.
First published in 1933, The People’s Forests makes a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation’s forests in the face of generations of devastating practices.
In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders—Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places.
Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism—and its moral thrust—from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present.
The Monkey Wrench Gang fueled a new generation of angry young environmentalists (such as Earth First!) who practice monkey-wrenching, or sabotage for the sake of protecting the wilderness.
Bill Bryson introduces the history and ecology of the Appalachian Trail.