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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date
June 7, 2016
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781504722957
ISBN-10
1504722957
Dimensions
5.68 by 5.10 in.
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness as told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone.
When 25-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, Engineering Eden by Jordan Fisher Smith, a nature writer and former park ranger, shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem-- that the idea of what is ''natural'' dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it.
When 25-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, Engineering Eden by Jordan Fisher Smith, a nature writer and former park ranger, shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem-- that the idea of what is ''natural'' dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it.
Editions
Hardcover
from Crown Pub (June 7, 2016)
9780307454263 | details & prices | 352 pages | List price $28.00
CD/Spoken Word
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Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (June 7, 2016)
9781504722957 | details & prices | List price $34.95
About: The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness as told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone.
About: The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness as told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone.
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