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Driven wild : how the fight against automobiles launched the modern wilderness movement /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sutter, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2002]
Series:Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Subjects:
Automobiles > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Conservationists > United States > History.
Wilderness areas > United States > History.
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Illustrations follow pages 48 and 112
  • Foreword: Why Worry about Roads, by William Cronon vii
  • Acknowledgments xiii
  • 1. The Problem of the Wilderness 3
  • 2. Knowing Nature through Leisure:
  • Outdoor Recreation during the Interwar Years 19
  • 3. A Blank Spot on the Map:
  • Aldo Leopold 54
  • 4. Advertising the Wild:
  • Robert Sterling Yard 100
  • 5. Wilderness as Regional Plan:
  • Benton MacKaye 142
  • 6. The Freedom of the Wilderness:
  • Bob Marshall 194
  • 7. Epilogue: A Living Wilderness 239
  • Notes 264
  • Sources 308
  • Index 332.