Engineering Eden

A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In the summer of 1972, 25-year-old Harry Eugene Walker hitchhiked away from his family’s northern Alabama dairy farm to see America. Nineteen days later he was killed by an endangered grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. The ensuing civil trial, brought against the US Department of the Interior for alleged mismanagement of the park’s grizzly population, emerged as a referendum on how America’s most beloved wild places should be conserved. Two of the twentieth century’s greatest wildlife biologists testified—on opposite sides.Moving across decades and among Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, and Sequoia National Parks, author and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith has crafted an epic, emotionally wrenching account of America’s fraught, century-and-a-half-long attempt to remake Eden—in the name of saving it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-19
Mått:140 x 211 x 30 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:The Experiment LLC
Medarbetare:JackE. Davis
ISBN:9781615195459

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Jordan Fisher Smith worked for 21 years as a park ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. The author of Nature Noir and narrator of the documentary Under Our Skin, he has written for The New Yorker, Men's Journal, and many other outlets.

Recensioner i media

"Winner of the California Book Award, Silver Medal for NonfictionLonglisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science WritingOne of Outside magazine’s 10 Outdoor Books that Shaped the Last Decade"An intensely reported, rousingly readable and ambitiously envisioned book . . . weaves together a dramatic court case in Los Angeles, a grizzly-bear attack, and a surprisingly fascinating debate over what constitutes the word ’natural’ when it comes to national parks. . . a thrilling read. Like the best visions for parks, it combines the human and the animal, the managed and the natural, the controlled and the wild."