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Satellites in the high country = searching for the wild in the Age of Man /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Satellites in the high country/ by Jason Mark.
其他題名:	searching for the wild in the Age of Man /
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. -
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-581-6
ISBN:	9781610915816

Satellites in the high country = searching for the wild in the Age of Man /
Mark, Jason.

Satellites in the high countrysearching for the wild in the Age of Man /[electronic resource] :by Jason Mark. - Washington, DC :Island Press/Center for Resource Economics :2015. - x, 306 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781610915816

Standard No.: 10.5822/978-1-61091-581-6doiSubjects--Personal Names:

1070703
Mark, Jason,
1975---Travel.Subjects--Topical Terms:

559309
Nature.

LC Class. No.: QH81 / .M26535 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 333.782

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