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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
521 pages (large print), 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, co-founded the Sierra Club, and is sometimes called the Father of the National Parks. A poor immigrant, self-taught, individualistic, and skeptical of institutions, his idealistic belief in the spiritual benefits of holistic natural systems led him to a philosophy of preserving wilderness unimpaired.Gifford Pinchot founded the U.S. Forest Service and advised his friend...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xi, 258 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm
Description
"The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each with its own distinct culture, religion, language, and history. Yet these Indians, and federal Indian law, rarely factor into the decisions of the country's governing class - as recent battles over national monuments on tribal sites have made painfully clear. A much-needed intervention, 'Many Nations under...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xi, 258 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm
Description
"The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each with its own distinct culture, religion, language, and history. Yet these Indians, and federal Indian law, rarely factor into the decisions of the country's governing class - as recent battles over national monuments on tribal sites have made painfully clear. A much-needed intervention, 'Many Nations under...
10) Cast out of Eden: the untold story of John Muir, indigenous peoples, and the American wilderness
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 291 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir's role in the legacy of racialized colonialism affecting U.S. wild lands and points toward a way forward";
"John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States' vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossession of the...
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