Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks

by Philip G. Terrie

Overview

In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travellers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815602880
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	07/01/1994
Series:	New York State
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.03(w) x 8.97(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Philip G. Terrie is Professor of English and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is former Assistant Curator of the Adirondack Museum.

Editorial Reviews

Ever aware of the varying needs of man and nature, Terrie strives to be fair in his assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in our history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travelers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic. His book . . . is an important scholarly addition to Adirondack literature and a fitting companion to Roderick Nash's classic Wilderness and the American Mind.-- "Environmental Review"

Philip Terrie has written a thoughtful and provocative study of the emergence of a modem environmental aesthetic in connection with the history of the Adirondack forest preserve. . . . The analysis of the romantic aspect of this dual attitude is a significant contribution of this study, for Terrie takes full account of the essential ambiguity of many of those who in time came to celebrate the majesty, beauty, and peace of the Adirondack wilderness.-- "The Hudson Valley Regional Review"

Terrie, a former Adirondack museum curator, is well qualified to write this excellent historical work. . . A book for all environmentalists.-- "Choice"

What Terrie has done is to apply the broad cultural generalizations others have developed to a regional literature. The successful continuation of environmental history depends on this kind of refined focusing.-- "American Historical Review"

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