Conserving Words : How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement

Conserving Words : How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 416 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780820325767
  • DDC分類 508.73

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Phillippon calls "conserving" words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey).

Full Description

How did American nature writers shape the environmental movement? This work looks at five authors of works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: including Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey, Mabel Osgood Wright and John Muir.