Isbn: 9780803291560 - dreamers and defenders: american conservationists (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear, rubbing to corners.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Zustand: Good. (2nd)88 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Zustand: Good. (2nd)88 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. None. Minor scuffing on front cover. Bookstore stamp on FEP. ; 9.0 X 3.6 X 0.6 inches; 295 pages fmc2%262D.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0803291566.

Zustand: Poor. Light shelf wear to extremities. Fading along spine. Small nick in edge of front cover. Sporadic notes, text all readable.

Zustand: New. 1988. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. Relates the triumphs and defeats of twelve environmentalists from Henry David Thoreau to Barry Commoner. Starting with Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and George Perkins Marsh, this book shows that conservation enjoyed the support of a few writers and scien.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Dreamers and Defenders Douglas H. Strong relates the triumphs and defeats of twelve environmentalists from Henry David Thoreau to Barry Commoner. Their biographies form the dramatic and ongoing story of the conservationmovement in America. Beginning with Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and George Perkins Marsh, Strong shows that conservation enjoyed the support of a few writers and scientists even in the heyday of land development in the mid-nineteenth century. Later chapters are devoted to John Wesley Powell, who after the Civil War attempted to introduce enlightened land policies in the arid West; Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt's chief forester; ]ohn Muir, who popularized the gospel of wilderness preservation; Stephen Mather, who launched the National Park Service; and Aldo Leopold, advocate of an ethical attitude toward the land. Other chapters deal with Harold Ickes, who as Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of the interior spurred conservation efforts and encouraged economic recovery from the Great Depression; David Brower, the controversial executive director of the Sierra Club; and Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner, who alerted Americans to the dangers of an environment increasingly polluted by toxic chemicals.…