To the Wilderness: A Memoir - Rilegato

Stocking, Marion K.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1611493404 ISBN 13: 9781611493405

Casa editrice: Univ of Delaware Pr, 2010

Riassunto

To the Wilderness is the memoir of an outdoorswoman's life in search of the wild. Improvising a canoe route through deep Maine woods, she discovered—a century after Thoreau—not the forest primeval but a commercial forest, B.C. (Before Chainsaw). Later, in the Minnesota-Ontario border waters she found wilderness being loved to death, making the ironic case for management of wild places. Climbing Mount Katahdin in 1947 provided her with a baseline of untrammeled wilderness. But ecstatic moments of union with nature, she discovered, may be inseparable from alienating and even life-threatening encounters. Having grown through innocence to experience, she contemplated the changing attitudes toward the environment in her lifetime and suggested how one person or a nation may live responsibly on the planet.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

The late Marion K. Stocking taught at Beloit College for thirty years.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Delaware Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1611493404
• ISBN 13: 9781611493405
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 211