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Nature Shock - Getting Lost in America (Hardcover)
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Nature Shock - Getting Lost in America (Hardcover)
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An award-winning environmental historian explores American history
through wrenching, tragic, and sometimes humorous stories of
getting lost "Fascinating. . . . Underlying . . . is a deep belief
in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans
and their environments, as well as between humans and other
humans."-Robert Macfarlane, New York Review of Books The human
species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people,
inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant
roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book,
environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses the trailblazers so
often described in American history to follow instead the strays
and drifters who went missing. From Hernando de Soto's failed quest
for riches in the American southeast to the recent trend of getting
lost as a therapeutic escape from modernity, this book details a
unique history of location and movement as well as the
confrontations that occur when our physical and mental conceptions
of space become disjointed. Whether we get lost in the woods, the
plains, or the digital grid, Coleman argues that getting lost
allows us to see wilderness anew and connect with generations
across five centuries to discover a surprising and edgy American
identity.
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