Wild Nevada - Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert

Informationen zum Autor Roberta Moore is an interpretive park ranger at Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. She sits on the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Board of Trustees. Scott Slovic is a professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. The author, editor, or coeditor of many books, his research specialties include American environmental literature, the relation between narrative discourse and environmental values, autobiography and environmental experience, and environmental rhetoric. Klappentext Editors Moore and Slovic have assembled 29 writers who know and love the Nevada wilderness to testify on its behalf. For those who love Nevada, for those who love the world beyond the concrete pavement, "Wild Nevada" will be thought-provoking and vital reading.For many people beyond Nevada's borders, the state is no more than the nation's desert dumping ground for dangerous waste. Others know it only for its hedonistic centres of gambling and entertainment. In Wild Nevada, editors Roberta Moore and Scott Slovic have assembled twenty-nine writers who know and love the Nevada wilderness to testify on its behalf.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roberta Moore, Roberta (EDT)/ Slovic Moore, Roberta Slovic Moore, Scott Slovic
• Con la collaborazione di: Roberta Moore (Editore), Scott Slovic (Editore)
• Editore: University of Nevada Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9780874176131
• ISBN: 978-0-87417-613-1
• Pagine: 172
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 171 mm x 13 mm
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio