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Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature--gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what ... Read more
If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature--gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816516995
SKU
V9780816516995
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