Paperback
English language
Published Oct. 31, 1995 by Vintage.
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n 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.
In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics.
Subjects
- Westerns
- Travel
- Nature / Field Guide Books
- General
- Life Sciences - Ecology
- United States - State & Local - General
- Non-Classifiable
- United States - West - General