Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George Perkins Marsh

Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

George Perkins Marsh

504 pages paperback 1965

10 editions

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective medium-paced
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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 h...

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