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George Perkins Marsh
Prophet of Conservation
George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh�s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal�s earlier biography George...
George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to...
To Pass On a Good Earth
The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras," Carl Ortwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both academics and poets, yet no book-length biography of him has existed...
To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth...