George Perkins Marsh

George Perkins Marsh Prophet of Conservation

Hardback (29 Jun 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

G.P. Marsh wrote what William Cronon calls in his foreword, one of America's three most important environmental texts, Man and Nature (1864) (the other two were Silent Spring and Sand County Almanac ). Man and Nature argued that deforestation led to the demise of civilization: that because the ancients cut down their trees, there was erosion, droug

Book information

ISBN: 9780295979427
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Imprint: University of Washington Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 34
Weight: 1102g
Height: 244mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 45mm