Virgin forest
meditations on history, ecology, and culture
by Eric Zencey
With 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.
Virgin 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.
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Virgin forest: meditations on history, ecology, and culture
1998, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820319899 9780820319896
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These essays were written between 1985 and 1995; some essays were published separately--Pref.
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