Man and nature / by George Perkins Marsh ; edited by David Lowenthal.

First published in 1864, 'Man & Nature' was the first book to challenge the perception that man's effect on nature was benign or negligible. Marsh argued that the ancient world promoted its own destruction by deforestation & soil exhaustion. His work inspired many early conser...

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Main Author: Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882
Other Authors: Lowenthal, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.
Series:John Harvard library.
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