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The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower par Robert Wyss
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN-13
- 9780231164467
- Book Title
- The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
- ISBN
- 9780231164467
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Man Who Built the Sierra Club : Alife of David Brower
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 28.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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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 challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing. As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231164467
ISBN-13
9780231164467
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219578733
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Man Who Built the Sierra Club : Alife of David Brower
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
28.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qh31.B859w97 2016
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
Wyss provides a penetrating and readable narrative of the highest profile American environmentalist in the postwar decades and of the many battles he and the Sierra Club fought. He makes clear the multiple layers of Brower's personality: passion, commitment, aggressiveness, and, at times, recklessness. Readers will come away with a clear and compelling portrait of this cutting edge environmental activist., Wyss provides a penetrating and readable narrative of the highest-profile American environmentalist in the postwar decades and of the many battles he and the Sierra Club fought. He makes clear the multiple layers of Brower's personality: passion, commitment, aggressiveness, and, at times, recklessness. Readers will come away with a clear and compelling portrait of this cutting-edge environmental activist., David Brower-mountaineer, ardent conservationist, fierce advocate for wilderness-led a life that mattered then and still does. Like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, Brower stood up for the natural world when it had much to lose, and made a difference. Robert Wyss captures the man and that critical moment in this insightful, moving, and consequential book. The Man Who Built the Sierra Club adds an essential work to the canon of American environmental history., David Brower--mountaineer, ardent conservationist, fierce advocate for wilderness--led a life that mattered then and still does today. Like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, Brower stood up for the natural world when it had much to lose, and made a difference. Robert Wyss captures the man and that critical moment in this insightful, moving, and consequential book. The Man Who Built the Sierra Club adds an essential work to the canon of American environmental history., A riveting.... extensively researched, balanced account.... This absorbing portrait of a flawed yet fascinating figure, beloved and scorned, who defined America's national parks will engage all biography lovers., Brower remained a force in the environmental movement until the end of his long life, and this book makes fitting homage. Thorough and well written.... [ The Man Who Built the Sierra Club ] provides a highly useful view of how environmental battles are waged in the trenches., A well-structured, clearly written account of an American lodestar, one whose nimble mind befuddled both allies and adversaries.... Wherever a reader stands on climate change and conservation in general, David Brower is as important to those current debates as John Adams or Thomas Jefferson are to tussles over modern political philosophy, and Wyss here gives him his balanced due., Wyss has crafted a detailed and thorough account of Brower's life, employing archival collections at the Bancroft Library, oral histories, and...extensive interviews., David Brower--mountaineer, ardent conservationist, fierce advocate for wilderness--led a life that mattered then and still does. Like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, Brower stood up for the natural world when it had much to lose, and made a difference. Robert Wyss captures the man and that critical moment in this insightful, moving, and consequential book. The Man Who Built the Sierra Club adds an essential work to the canon of American environmental history., Wyss's assiduous research will lay to rest many lingering misconceptions about a man who exasperated and inspired by turns, and always spoke to our hearts' love for wild Earth. A tremendously worthwhile and interesting chronicle of Brower's evolution into an uncompromising crusader., Wyss's assiduous research will lay to rest many lingering misconceptions about a man who exasperated and inspired by turns, and always spoke to our hearts' love for wild earth. A tremendously worthwhile and interesting chronicle of Brower's evolution into an uncompromising crusader.
Table of Content
List of 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
Copyright Date
2016
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmentalists & Naturalists
Lccn
2015-034505
Dewey Decimal
333.72092 B
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Science
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