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Windshield Wilderness - Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks (Paperback)
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Windshield Wilderness - Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks (Paperback)
Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
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In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores
the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how
together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks,
he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern
world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through
technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an
enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. With a lively
style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of
Washington State's national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and
North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as
scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that
we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars
have been central to how people experience and interpret their
meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places.
Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks
address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a
windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a
cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story
of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a
dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the
difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural
ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in
national parks.
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