The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez

by Alexander Wilson

Landscape, that region of the earth saturated by human cultures, is today a place of deeply conflicting ideas about the natural world and our relation to it. Wilson traces the responses of Canadian, U.S. and aboriginal cultures to the land. He examines the environments we have built on this continent over the past fifty years as we continue to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and re-enchant a natural world in convulsion.

Genres: Architecture, Nature

335 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1991

Reviews

[Amanda Lagerfeld]

Read for school

[Mathew Powers · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd really give it 3.25, or 3.5, if that makes sense. It's not really "ok", but it's not "really liked it", either. So, yeah .. :)

It's a nice book and well written -- it's entertaining in its story telling. This is most certainly not deep scholarship, yet it tries to be at certain points. If you are looking for an easy read that's pretty entertaining, this is a good book.

I will say the pictures, tables,and graphs are well done in this book, although I'm not sure why it is so Canada-heavy, noting that his journeys are in both Canada and the U.S. I realize he is in Toronto, but a little more research would have been nice to include U.S. maps and tables, too. I assume he may not have been funded for that? I can't fault him for that ;)