The Man Who Built the Sierra Club : : A Life of David Brower / / Robert Wyss.
David Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 20 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1. First Fight
- 2. Mountains
- 3. The Club
- 4. The Lesson
- 5. Wilderness
- 6. Forest
- 7. Parks
- 8. Glen Canyon
- 9. Progress
- 10. Books
- 11. Escalating the Risks
- 12. Grand Canyon
- 13. Losing While Winning
- 14. Diablo and Galápagos
- 15. Conflict
- 16. Campaign
- 17. Echoes
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index