The Environmental Imagination

Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture

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by Lawrence Buell and Henry David Thoreau

Harvard University Press

Due/Published August 1996, 608 pages, paper

ISBN 0674258622

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination.