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Exceptional Mountains - A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes (Hardcover)
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Exceptional Mountains - A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes (Hardcover)
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Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific
Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty
and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment
of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical
landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and
with it the narratives we compose about ourselves. Exceptional
Mountains is a cultural history of the Northwest volcanoes and the
environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It
probes the relationship between these volcanoes and regional
identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and
population growth in the Northwest. O. Alan Weltzien demonstrates
how mountaineering is but one conspicuous example of the outdoor
recreation industry's unrestricted and problematic growth. He
explores the implications of our assumptions that there are no
limits to our outdoor recreation habits and that access to the
highest mountains should include amenities for affluent consumers.
Each chapter probes the mountain-based regional ethos and the
concomitant sense of privilege and entitlement from different
vantages to illuminate the consumerist mind-set as a reductive-and
deeply problematic-version of experience and identity in and around
some of the nation's most striking mountains.
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