City of Nature

Download or read book City of Nature written by Bernard Rosenthal and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reexamines traditional assumptions about early American attitudes toward nature. It also reopens and redefines the relationships of nature and civilization in the previous century, and in so doing, offers today's reader an insight into the basis for some contemporary attitudes toward the environment. The works of major and minor American writers are considered.