Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature /
Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture o...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1995.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnhqk |
Sommario:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Fast Fish in America: An Introduction; 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies; 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country; 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water; 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County; 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York; Paper Moon: A Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.