Nature and the American: Three Centuries of Changing AttitudesHans Huth was for many years Curator of Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and a consultant for the U.S. National Park Service. For this new Bison Book edition, Douglas H. Strong has written an introduction discussing recent developments in the environmental movement and the contribution of Nature and the American to the burgeoning crusade for nature. |
Contents
Introduction | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Scientists Philosophers and Travelers | 14 |
The Romantic Period | 30 |
The Poetry of Traveling | 71 |
New Eyes | 87 |
Summer Migration | 105 |
Western Reports | 129 |
Yosemite Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon | 148 |
City Parks and Timberlands | 165 |
11 | 178 |
Conservation | 192 |
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