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The subject has needed detailed treatment for years, and I always expected the definitive study would be accomplished by a naturalist. But Peter Schmitt is a historian, and it's probably better that way after all. I guess this book is the one I've been looking for. -- John Eastman Natural History

Table of Contents

Foreword, by John R. Stilgoe
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1. Back to nature
Chapter 2. The Literary Commuter
Chapter 3. Birds in the Bush
Chapter 4. Nature Fakers
Chapter 5. This Elegant Art
Chapter 6. Keep Off the Grass
Chapter 7. Arcadia Comes to School
Chapter 8. Bluebirds and Beansprouts
Chapter 9. The Customary Thing
Chapter 10. Backwoods Brotherhoods
Chapter 11. Children's Fiction and the Out-of-Doors
Chapter 12. The Wilderness Novel
Chapter 13. The Church in the Wildwood
Chapter 14. Nature and the Camer
Chapter 15. The Search for Scenery
Chapter 16. The Search for Solitude
Chapter 17. The New Frontier
Notes
Selected REadings since 1969
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 29/03/1990
      ISBN13: 9780801840135, 978-0801840135
      ISBN10: 0801840139
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      Conservation of the environment Sociology Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      The subject has needed detailed treatment for years, and I always expected the definitive study would be accomplished by a naturalist. But Peter Schmitt is a historian, and it's probably better that way after all. I guess this book is the one I've been looking for. -- John Eastman Natural History

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, by John R. Stilgoe
      Preface
      Preface to the First Edition
      Introduction
      Chapter 1. Back to nature
      Chapter 2. The Literary Commuter
      Chapter 3. Birds in the Bush
      Chapter 4. Nature Fakers
      Chapter 5. This Elegant Art
      Chapter 6. Keep Off the Grass
      Chapter 7. Arcadia Comes to School
      Chapter 8. Bluebirds and Beansprouts
      Chapter 9. The Customary Thing
      Chapter 10. Backwoods Brotherhoods
      Chapter 11. Children's Fiction and the Out-of-Doors
      Chapter 12. The Wilderness Novel
      Chapter 13. The Church in the Wildwood
      Chapter 14. Nature and the Camer
      Chapter 15. The Search for Scenery
      Chapter 16. The Search for Solitude
      Chapter 17. The New Frontier
      Notes
      Selected REadings since 1969
      Index

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