Nature shock : getting lost in America /

An award-winning environmental historian explores American history through wrenching, tragic and sometimes humorous stories of getting lost. The human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleman, Jon T., 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Want to Get Lost?
  • Brutal symmetry
  • Helpful woods and violent waters
  • Children of the revolution
  • Homing
  • Dead-certain mental compass
  • Keep your head
  • Male pattern trail loss
  • Epilogue: Disconnect.