The relationship of wilderness to civilization has been a major preoccupation of poets and novelists from Bryant to Faulkner. The cultural heritage developed out of a great deal of philosophizing, romanticizing and fantasizing about the wilderness. But for all the enthusiasm that accompanied its conquest, we have not necessarily developed an appreciation for the actual phenomenon of wilderness itself - its trees, bogs, snakes, rocks, wolves and dirt.
- ISBN10 0874172500
- ISBN13 9780874172508
- Publish Date 1 October 1994 (first published 20 July 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nevada Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English