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A River Running West
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and …
Wealth of Nature
Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study …
River Running West
If the word "e;hero"e; still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented …
Shrinking the Earth
The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope …
Nature's Economy
Nature’s Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology’s past. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has …
An Unsettled Country
The West remains unsettled--by cultural habits, intellectual debate, and ecological conditions. In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in …
Ecology and the Environment
The scientific, political, and economic policy debates about the global environmental crisis have tended to ignore its historical, ethical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions. …
Braided Waters
Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated …
Under Western Skies
For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism - the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of …
The Inhabited Prairie
Known for her photographs of the prairie as an orderly grid, taken from high above, Evans here works at lower altitudes to focus on the land as an inhabited place. All these images …
A Passion for Nature
"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to …