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Satellites in the High Country = Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Satellites in the High Country/ by Jason Mark.
Reminder of title:	Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man /
Author:	Mark, Jason.
Description:	X, 306 p. 2 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Environment. -
Online resource:	https://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. - 1st ed. 2015. - X, 306 p. 2 illus.online resource.

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--Topical Terms:

579342
Environment.

LC Class. No.: GE1-350

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7

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