Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
by Karl Jacoby
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Author: Karl JacobyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-02-03
ISBN: 0520239091
Number of pages: 324
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: A lucid book on how we've "created" nature - and outlaws
Summary: 5 Stars
Crimes Against Nature is written by one of America's foremost new thinkers on the environment. Karl Jacoby's book has all the beauty and intellectual force his lectures are famous for. This book gives a startlingly new perspective on just how we've created our national parks. In doing so, he makes us rethink what we consider our proudest achievements - and at what cost we've achieved them. Five stars.
Summary of Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.General Books
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