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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that bring a fresh perspective to the wilderness paradoxically at the centre of civilization.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - wildness untamed - the evolution of an ideal, David Rothenberg. Part 1 Whose wild idea?: wild and sustainable uses - revisioning wilderness, R. Edward Grumbine; habitable Earth - wilderness, empire and race in America, Denis Cosgrove; Earth-talk - conservation and the ecology of language, Max Oelschlaeger. Part 2 Cross-cultural wild: pancultural wilderness, Marvin Henberg; reminiscing about a sleepy lake - borderland views of women, place and the wild, Lois Ann Lorentzen; confessions of an eco-colonialist - responsible knowing among the Inuit, Douglas J. Buege. Part 3 The art of the wild: out of the map, into the territory - the earthly topology of time, David Abram; silent wolves - the howl of the implicity, Irene Klaver; the idea of the north - an iceberg history, David Rothenberg; the princess of the stars - music for a wilderness lake, R. Murray Schafer. Part 4 The wild revised: beauty and the beasts - predators in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, Tom Wolf; healing by the wilderness experience, Robert Greenway; urban wilderness, Andrew Light; epilogue - paradox wild, David Rothenberg.
