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The Abstract Wild [Audiobook] download free by Jack Turner

The Abstract Wild Audiobook download free by Jack Turner
  • Listen audiobook: The Abstract Wild
  • Author: Jack Turner
  • Release date: 1996/11/4
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Natural History
  • ISBN: 9780816516995
  • Rating: 9.01 of 10
  • Votes: 825
  • Review by: Edith Askew
  • Review rating: 8.36 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/16
  • Duration: 1H43M22S in 256 kbps (27.2 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-17
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, OPUS, WMA, FLAC, WAV (compression TBZ, RAR, RZ, ZIP, TBZ2)
  • Total pages original book: 136
  • Includes a PDF summary of 14 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 11M7S (2.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: If anything is endangered in America it is our experience of wild nature-gross contact. There is knowledge only the wild can give us, knowledge specific to it, knowledge specific to the experience of it. These are its gifts to us. How wild is wilderness and how wild are our experiences in it, asks Jack Turner in the pages of The Abstract Wild. His answer: not very wild. National parks and even so-called wilderness areas fall far short of offering the primal, mystic connection possible in wild places. And this is so, Turner avows, because any managed land, never mind what it's called, ceases to be wild. Moreover, what little wildness we have left is fast being destroyed by the very systems designed to preserve it. Natural resource managers, conservation biologists, environmental economists, park rangers, zoo directors, and environmental activists: Turner's new book takes aim at these and all others who labor in the name of preservation. He argues for a new conservation ethic that focuses less on preserving things and more on preserving process and 'leaving things be.'He takes off after zoos and wilderness tourism with a vengeance, and he cautions us to resist language that calls a tree 'a resource' and wilderness 'a management unit.' Eloquent and fast-paced, The Abstract Wild takes a long view to ask whether ecosystem management isn't 'a bit of a sham' and the control of grizzlies and wolves 'at best a travesty.' Next, the author might bring his readers up-close for a look at pelicans, mountain lions, or Shamu the whale. From whatever angle, Turner stirs into his arguments the words of dozens of other American writers including Thoreau, Hemingway, Faulkner, and environmentalist Doug Peacock. We hunger for a kind of experience deep enough to change our selves, our form of life, writes Turner. Readers who take his words to heart will find, if not their selves, their perspectives on the natural world recast in ways that are hard to ignore and harder to forget.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Conservation Of The Environment, Philosophy Of Science, Natural History Books, Ecological Science, The Biosphere
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 19.70 USD
  • Dimensions: 142.49x237.74x12.95mm
  • Weight: 272.16g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Tucson, United States

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Categories: Natural History, English, 1996
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Publishers
IMB PUBLISHING VERSO BOOKS JOHN HUNT PUBLISHING PALGRAVE MACMILLAN CORNERSTONE FRANCES LINCOLN PUBLISHERS LTD
Authors
Oliver Sacks Richard Mabey Aristotle James Herriot George Hoppendale Gerald Durrell
Genres
Natural History Society and Social Sciences
Years
2001 1995 2011 2017 1989
Languages
English Not Available Spanish