The Idea of Wilderness From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology Max Oelschlaeger

Format:
Paperback
Publication date:
25 Feb 1993
ISBN:
9780300053708
Dimensions:
492 pages: 236 x 155 x 38mm
Illustrations:
notes, index

How has the concept of wild nature changed over the milennia? And what have been the environmental consequences? In a work of intellectual history, the author presents an examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages - from early teomism through Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian supernaturalism to the rise of materialism and modernism.