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050 00 $aGF21$b.Z46 1998
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100 1 $aZencey, Eric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95045744
245 10 $aVirgin forest :$bmeditations on history, ecology, and culture /$cEric Zencey.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axiii, 169 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aThese essays were written between 1985 and 1995; many of the essays were published separately.
505 00 $tApocalypse and Ecology --$tSome Brief Speculations on the Popularity of Entropy as Metaphor --$tOn Hunting --$tCartography --$tThe Rootless Professors --$tThe Contemporary Relevance of Henry Adams --$tThe Hand That Wounds --$tIn Search of Virgin Forest --$tZeno's Mail --$tParge and Strike --$tEcology and Guilt --$tWhy History Is Sublime.
520 $aWith this book Eric Zencey changes the way we think about nature by changing how we think about history. Zencey's way home takes us many places: to a starlit mountaintop, where a nineteenth-century sect awaits the second coming; to the northern woods during hunting season; to the salt marshes of a Delaware childhood; to the softball games and abandoned mill ponds of his adopted Vermont. Always we are shown a world outside our preconceptions.
520 8 $aVirgin Forest is a passionate call for ecological health. It amply demonstrates (as the final essay has it) "Why History Is Sublime"; if we suffer a postmodern lack of grounding, only a rooted-in-place ecological sensibility can supply our need, and historical understanding is its inescapable prerequisite.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105866
650 0 $aPhilosophy of nature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101004
650 0 $aHistory$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061223
852 00 $boff,leh$hGF21$i.Z46 1998