[PDF.39kc] Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (The John Harvard Library)

Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (The John Harvard Library)

[PDF.bj85] Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (The John Harvard Library)

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 | #3719538 in Books |  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |  1965-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.26 x6.00l,1.65 | File type: PDF | 504 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| For any ecology library|By Tom Hartung|Who else in the 1860s was saying that man was a devastating force against nature? Geo P Marsh observed the way the woods of his youth in Vermont had been desolated, laid waste, and felt the need to shout out against all those who insisted that nature was indomitable and endless. His book is documentation of all the ways that man had tota| |First published in 1864, this cautionary exploration of how civilizations decline when they degrade the natural world is the wellspring of the environmental movement. (T.H. Watkins Washington Post)

This classic of conservation, Man and Nat

George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land. "It is worth reading after a hundred years," Mr. Lowenthal points out, "not only because it taught important lessons in its day, but also because it still teache...

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