George Marsh – författare

An essential read for the next generation of environmentalists and climate scholars, this landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. Profoundly topical today as it was in 1864, this informative yet easy to read text is split into six chapters and may be easily used in a course syllabus.

George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature was the first book to attack the American myth of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was, as Lewis Mumford said, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books since have had such an influence on the way men view and use land. "It is worth reading after a hundred years," Mr. Lowenthal points out, "not only because it taught important lessons in its day, but also because it still teaches them so well...Historical insight and contemporary passion make Man and Nature an enduring classic."

A Hudson Bay factor's son and a great sled dog cross Labrador in winter, chased by men who want the fur post's secret. Marsh set his books among the dog teams, canoe routes and trading posts of the far north and wrote the cold as a working condition rather than an adventure - the dogs are characters, the ice is not scenery.