{"product_id":"savage-dreams-a-journey-into-the-landscape-wars-of-the-american-west-9780520282285","title":"Savage Dreams  A Journey into the Landscape Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Solnit's intelligent meditations may awaken us from our self-congratulatory coma. [Her] mid is fertile, wide-ranging, and capable of integrating the bewildering deluge of fact, political delusion, flights of genius, inconceivable danger, and cunning deceit that have characterized the nuclear age.\" * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"“The product of a stunningly original and expansive imagination. \u003ci\u003eSavage Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e ties together the histories of Yosemite National Park and the Nevada Test Site. . . . to illuminate the political stakes of how we think about, and act upon, the landscape.” \" * SF Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Flinging her net wide, Solnit evokes powerful images of destruction and conquest as she explores governmental abuses in the region.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Solnit's ability to see these issues from several sides-to see the nuclear blasts as beautiful as well as terrible, James Savage as not just a butcher but as a complex man-make this a complicated, engaging work.\" * Environmental History Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Solnit's book is an important contribution to the growing body of work on 20th-century activism. It is from such portrayals of the problems faced in past episodes of activism that we may broaden our own understanding of the risks––and promise––of our own collective actions.\" * Science \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  New Preface   DUST, OR ERASING THE FUTURE: THE NEVADA TEST SITE  From Hell to Breakfast  Like Moths to a Candle  April Fool's Day  Trees  Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes  Golden Hours and Iron County  Ruby Valley and the Ranch  The War  Keeping Pace with the Tortoise   WATER, OR FORGETTING THE PAST: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK  The Rainbow  Spectators  Framing the View  Vanishing (Remaining)  Fire in the Garden  The Name of the Snake  Up the River of Mercy  Savage's Grave  Full Circle   Afterword  Sources  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402869842263,"sku":"9780520282285","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520282285.jpg?v=1730481734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/savage-dreams-a-journey-into-the-landscape-wars-of-the-american-west-9780520282285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}