The Idea of Wilderness
From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology
by Max Oelschlaeger
477 pages· ISBN 9780300053708
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How has the concept of wild nature changed over the millennia? And what have been the environmental consequences? In a wide-ranging work of intellectual history, Max Oelschlaeger presents a stimulating new examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages-from early totemism through Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian supernaturalism to the rise of materialism and modernism.
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