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Man in the Landscape - A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,078
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Man in the Landscape - A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature (Paperback): Paul Shepard

Man in the Landscape - A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature (Paperback)

Paul Shepard; Foreword by Dave Foreman

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A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world.

Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture -- their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.

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Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2002
First published: October 2002
Authors: Paul Shepard
Foreword by: Dave Foreman
Dimensions: 143 x 217 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2440-1
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
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LSN: 0-8203-2440-X
Barcode: 9780820324401

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