Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
A cultural critique of zoos that seeks to problematize their role as a sanctuary for animals.
A cultural history of the Grand Canyon that investigates the intersections of culture, nature, and landscape.
Castro wishes to encourage a new reading of the best-known sources and authors associated with this issue, as well as the adoption of a new perspective on the deep origins of the environmental problems that the country faces today.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.
By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.
Laurel Peacock on Brenda Hillman’s ecopoetic practice and how we can shift our understanding of our affective relationship to the environment.