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Nature Shock
- Getting Lost in America
Engelsk Hardback

Nature Shock

- Getting Lost in America
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
360
ISBN-13:
9780300227147
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0300227140
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Udg. Dato:
13 okt 2020
Længde:
30mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
Yale University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 okt 2020
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