Satellites in the high country[elect...
Mark, Jason, (1975-)

 

  • Satellites in the high country[electronic resource] :searching for the wild in the Age of Man /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 333.782
    書名/作者: Satellites in the high country : searching for the wild in the Age of Man // by Jason Mark.
    作者: Mark, Jason.
    出版者: Washington, DC : : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :, 2015.
    面頁冊數: x, 306 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Nature.
    標題: Nature - Effect of human beings on.
    標題: Wilderness areas.
    標題: Nature - Psychological aspects.
    標題: Social Sciences.
    標題: Environmental Policy.
    ISBN: 9781610915816
    ISBN: 9781597263085
    內容註: Prologue: Into the Wild Chapter -- 1. Bewildered Chapter -- 2. The Mountains of California -- 3. The Forest Primeval Chapter -- 4. Fall of the Wild? -- 5. The Heart of Everything That Is -- 6. The Ecology of Fear -- 7. Back to the Stone Age -- Epilogue: Wild at Heart -- Acknowledgments -- Sources & Inspiration -- Interviews.
    摘要、提要註: In this publication, journalist and adventurer Jason Mark travels beyond the bright lights and certainties of our cities to seek wildness wherever it survives. In California's Point Reyes National Seashore, a battle over oyster farming and designated wilderness pits former allies against one another, as locals wonder whether wilderness should be untouched, farmed, or something in between. In Washington's Cascade Mountains, a modern-day wild woman and her students learn to tan hides and start fires without matches, attempting to connect with a primal past out of reach for the rest of society. And in Colorado's High Country, dark skies and clear air reveal a breathtaking expanse of stars, flawed only by the arc of a satellite passing--beauty interrupted by the traffic of a million conversations. These expeditions to the edges of civilization's grid show us that, although our notions of pristine nature may be shattering, the mystery of the wild still exists--and in fact, it is more crucial than ever.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-581-6
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