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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alston ChasePublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Transaction Publishers Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.793kg ISBN: 9780765807526ISBN 10: 0765807521 Pages: 576 Publication Date: 31 May 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1: The Search for Nature; I: Crisis: What is Nature? 1960-1972; 2: Cork Boot Fever; 3: Mr. Redwood; 4: The Eco Raiders; 5: Rebels with a Cause; 6: Life in The Peace Zone; II: Discovery: Nature is An Ancient Forest 1973-1981; 7: Building An Ark; 8: A Law for All Seasons; 9: A New Metaphor for Nature; 10: The Birth of Biocentrism; 11: The Owl Shrieked; 12: The Reluctant Researchers; 13: The New Forestry; III: Response: The Biocentric Revolution 1982-1990; 14: Night on Bald Mountain; 15: The Network; 16: Wall Street Forestry; 17: Occurrence at All Species Grove; 18: The Age of Extremism; 19: The Paradigm Shift; 20: Wobblies and Yellow Ribbons; 21: The Easter Sunday Massacre; 22: Forests Forever; 23: Fred, The Walking Rainbow; 24: Stepping on An Anthill; 25: Redwood Summer; IV: Consequences: The Season of Our Uncertainty 1991-; 26: Diaspora; 27: Home, Sweet Home; 28: The Forest Summit; 29: The Inferno; 30: In a Dark WoodReviews<p> A gripping story. <p> -- New York Times <p> A must-read for those who care about the environment. <p> -- Wall Street Journal <p> If you walk in the woods, read this book. It will open your eyes to what you're actually seeing. <p> -- Men's Journal <p> Fascinating reading, impeccably researched, and powerful. <p> -- Kirkus Reviews <p> The single most profound--and alarming--book in three decades of environmental literature. <p> -- Orange County Register A gripping story. -- New York Times A must-read for those who care about the environment. -- Wall Street Journal If you walk in the woods, read this book. It will open your eyes to what you're actually seeing. -- Men's Journal Fascinating reading, impeccably researched, and powerful. -- Kirkus Reviews The single most profound--and alarming--book in three decades of environmental literature. -- Orange County Register A gripping story. --New York Times A must-read for those who care about the environment. --Wall Street Journal If you walk in the woods, read this book. It will open your eyes to what you're actually seeing. --Men's Journal Fascinating reading, impeccably researched, and powerful. --Kirkus Reviews The single most profound--and alarming--book in three decades of environmental literature. --Orange County Register Anyone who wants to know why environmentalism has taken such an extreme turn in the past twenty-five years should read Alston Chase's account of the capture of the U.S. environmental movement. But the book has a much broader sweep. . . . In a Dark Wood should therefore appeal to the thoughtful liberals and conservatives alike. --Robert W. Crandall, The Brookings Institute Environmental bad boy Chase (Playing God in Yellowstone, 1986, etc.) takes on biocentrism and the Endangered Species Act in this delightfully angry if at times snide volume. Pretty much from the word go, this country's responses to the environmental needs of the land have been inadequate, suggests Chase, but the currently voguish notion of ecosystems is egregious in the extreme. He traces the roots of this concept back to its holistic/monistic source: It reflects the long line of thinking from Puritans longing for salvation through intimacy with God in nature right up to the preservationists' notion of nature as self-regulator (a particular bugbear of Chase's). Quaint ideas, scolds the author, unscientific and full of gaping holes. Nature is everywhere in flux; our yearning to return to presettlement conditions shows us up as self-interested primitivists infatuated with the aesthetic features of climax communities. Our desire to protect threatened creatures via the Endangered Species Act is an absurd mandate to stop evolution. Nature chooses no favorites, extinctions are inevitable, so why set aside for a Disneyesque menagerie of obscure life forms entire regions of the US? - particularly in the Pacific Northwest, where the fight to save old-growth forests serves as the book's framework. Though diatribe is Chase's forte, he's willing to put himself on the line with some recommendations for those involved in the environmental issue: Embrace change, work in concert rather than as adversaries, remember that humans too are an element in the landscape (and their works often very pleasing), and understand that the diversity of landscapes demands differing environmental strategies to reflect not just the land but the variegated interests of a heterogeneous society. Not for everyone this bitter medicine, devoid as it is of mystery and charm, but it is fascinating reading, impeccably researched, and powerful in that Chase is clearly a friend of the Earth, not another glad-rider or apologist. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationAlston Chase has written widely on natural history, the environment, and animal welfare. He is the author of Playing God in Yellowstone, In a Dark Wood, and Harvard and the Unabomber. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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