191729
9780300053708
How has the concept of wild nature changed over the millennia? And what have been the environmental consequences? In a wide-ranging work of intellectual history, Max Oelschlaeger presents a stimulating new examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages-from early totemism through Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian supernaturalism to the rise of materialism and modernism.Oelschlaeger, Max is the author of 'Idea of Wilderness From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology', published 1993 under ISBN 9780300053708 and ISBN 0300053703.
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