What the Woodpecker Saw Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. Aaron Sachs. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2013. 496 pp. $35, £25. ISBN 9780300176407

Threading his personal story through a history of the notion of Arcadia in 19th-century United States, Sachs reflects on our tendency to deny both death and environmental limits. Threading his personal story through a history of the notion of Arcadia in 19th-century United States, Sachs reflects on...

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Veröffentlicht in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2013, Vol.341 (6144), p.348-348
1. Verfasser: Weiss, Marissa
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Threading his personal story through a history of the notion of Arcadia in 19th-century United States, Sachs reflects on our tendency to deny both death and environmental limits. Threading his personal story through a history of the notion of Arcadia in 19th-century United States, Sachs reflects on our tendency to deny both death and environmental limits.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1240747