UID:
edocfu_9959236803002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxix, 472 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-674-04063-5
Content:
George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land.
Note:
"The text...is the first edition, as published in New York by Charles Scribner in 1864."
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""A Note on the Text""; ""Man and Nature""; ""Preface""; ""1. Introductory""; ""2. Transfer, Modification, and Extirpation of Vegetable and of Animal Species""; ""3. The Woods""; ""4. The Waters""; ""5. The Sands""; ""6. Projected or Possible Geographical Changes by Man""; ""Index""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-54450-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-674-54452-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674040632