Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition

by Roderick Frazier Nash

MP3 CD Format Roderick Nash's classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of "books that changed our world," and it has been called the "Book of Genesis for environmentalists."

For the fifth edition, Nash has written a new preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. Char Miller's foreword provides a twenty-first-century perspective on how the environmental movement has changed, including the ways in which contemporary scholars are reimagining the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the built environment.

Genres: Nonfiction

1 pages, Audio CD

Published March 1, 2021

Reviews

[Will DeMan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dense in places — especially near the beginning, but overall a very readable intellectual history of how we interact with wild places and why we feel the need to preserve them.

[Olcolemann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great classic, now updated. I read the 4th edition in college. It should be required reading for every high school student! A good follow-up book is Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark Spence.

[Matthew Durrant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required reading for understanding the importance of Wilderness to American history.

[Tim Mathis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read and brilliant if you want to understand the history of “the outdoors” in the US and the influence of American ideas about wilderness abroad.