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Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks
University of Washington Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-295-98606-7 | eISBN: 978-0-295-98984-6
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In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents Foreword by William Cronon 00 Acknowledgments 00 Introduction: Nature as We See It 00 1. Glaciers and Gasoline: Mount Rainier as a Windshield Wilderness 00 2. The Highway in Nature: Mount Rainier and the National Park Service 00 3. Wilderness with a View: Olympic and the New Roadless Park 00 4. A Road Runs Through It: A Wilderness Park for the North Cascades 00 5. Wilderness Threshold: North Cascades and a New Concept of National Parks 00 Epilogue 00 Selected Bibliography 00 Index 00
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