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Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816516995
Turner argues that once any land, even national parks and wilderness areas, is managed it ceases to be wild.
Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816513945
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 it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and "leaving things be." He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree "a resource" and wilderness "a management unit." Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't "a bit of a sham" and the control of grizzlies and wolves "at best a travesty." Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.
Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030112643
Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781847081599
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1838959548
'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby
Author : Hilton Carter
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781800650503
Namechecked as the "LeBron James of plant styling..." by "Good Morning America", Hilton Carter now shows how you can make, style, decorate and care for your own stunning plant-inspired interior with his 25 step-by-step DIY projects and plant hacks. Carter, the Instagram star of the plant world and creator of green interiors has given us glimpses into many stunning plant-filled homes where ivy and creeping figs hang miraculously from ceilings, moss and ferns grow effortlessly to create living walls, fiddle leaf ferns and cheese plants thrive, whilst air plants beautify artworks and succulents flourish whether in pots on windowsills or planted in terrariums... Now in his third book, Wild Creations, Hilton actually shows you how you can create these amazing fixtures that enable plants to become such an integral part of an interior. Divided into four sections, Wild Ideas, Wild Hacks, Wild Rants and Wild Plants, Wild Creations shows you step by step how you can create air plant wreaths, moss walls, leather hanging plant stands, terrariums and many more stunning projects that will give you the green interior you crave. And just so your plants feel at home in your interior there is even a painting by numbers jungle mural, plus plant-scented candles to make sure your interior not only stays wild but that you and all its inhabitants thrive from the health giving benefits of greenery.
Author : Frances Eleanor Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : England
ISBN : OSU:32435054199278
Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197191
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063534452
Author : Nate Marshall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822981084
Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category) Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category) Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards (poetry category) Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.
Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Apache Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048889260
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015053978600
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015023912002
Author : Gabriel King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786699350
'Absolutely magical... Always intriguing' Richard Adams author of Watership Down. Behind the realm of man lie the wild roads. Weaving through time and space, these hidden pathways carry the natural energies – the spirits, the dreams – of the world. No creature can slip into the shadows and travel the wild roads better than the cat. For millennia, cats have patrolled the tangled paths, maintaining balance and order, guarding against corruption and chaos. It is dangerous territory: for those who control the wild roads hold the keys to the world. Amid a struggle between the purest good and the darkest evil, here are tales of duty and destiny, of courage and comradeship among the extraordinary creatures who brave the wild roads... Secure in a world of privilege and safety, Tag is happy with life as a house cat – until the dreams begin. Hazy dreams of strange pathways, of a mission he must undertake and of a terrible responsibility he will bear. Armed with the cryptic message, Tag must bring the King and Queen of cats to Tintagel before the spring equinox. Meanwhile, a man known only as the Alchemist doggedly hunts the Queen for his own ghastly ends. And if the Alchemist captures her, the world will never be safe again...
Author : Robyn Bartel,Marty Branagan,Fiona Utley,Stephen Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000215137
Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called ‘fortress conservation’ and ‘co-existence’ schools of thought. This book, contending that this polarisation has led to a silencing and concealment of alternative perspectives and lines of enquiry, extends beyond these confines and in particular steers away from the dilemmas of paradise or paradox in order to advance an intellectual and policy agenda of plurality and diversity rather than of prescription and definition. Drawing on case studies from Australia, Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the United States and Iceland, and explorations of embodied experience, creative practice, philosophy, and First Nations land management approaches, the assembled chapters examine wilderness ideals, conflicts and human-nature dualities afresh, and examine co-existence and conservation in the Anthropocene in diverse ontological and multidisciplinary ways. By demonstrating a strong commitment to respecting the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this work delivers a more nuanced, ethical and decolonising approach to issues arising from relationships with wilderness. Such a collection is immediately appropriate given the political challenges and social complexities of our time, and the mounting threats to life across the globe. The abiding and uniting logic of the book is to offer a unique and innovative contribution to engender transformations of wilderness scholarship, activism and conservation policy. This text refutes the inherent privileging and exclusionary tactics of dominant modes of enquiry that too often serve to silence non-human and contrary positions. It reveals a multi-faceted and contingent wilderness alive with agency, diversity and possibility. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, environmental and natural resource management, Indigenous studies and environmental policy and planning. It will also be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and NGOs involved in conservation, protected environments and environmental governance.