Author: Nathan C. Clark
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Category : Clark, Nathan C.
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Nathan C. Clark
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Clark discusses his childhood and youth, outdoor outings with his father, engineering and the out-of-doors at the University of California, Berkeley, and joining the Sierra Club in 1929. He continues with club activities and associates in the 1930s, his Sentinal Dome wedding (Yosemite, 1944), the club's internal affairs, conservation campaigns, and reminiscences of Southern California Sierrans.

Author: Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619445
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to tell how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness and its regulation. Delving into memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Schrepfer especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different perceptions together defined the wilderness preservation movement for the nation. The Sierra Club in particular popularized the mystique of America's mountains, and Schrepfer uses its history to develop a sweeping interpretation of twentieth-century wilderness perceptions and national conservation politics. Schrepfer follows men like John Muir, Wilderness Society cofounder Robert Marshall, and the Sierra Club's own David Brower into the mountains-and finds them frequently in the company of women. She tells how mountaineering women shaped their lives through high adventure well before the twentieth century, participating in Appalachian mountain clubs and joining men as "Mazamas"—mountain goats—scaling Oregon's Mount Hood. From these expeditions, Schrepfer examines how women's ideas, language, and activism helped shape American environmentalism just as much as men's, parsing the "Romantic sublime" into its respective masculine and feminine components. Tracing this history to the 1964 Wilderness Act, she also shows how the feminine sublimes continue to flourish in the form of ecofeminism and in exploits like the all-woman climb of Annapurna in 1978. By explaining why both women and men risked their lives in these landscapes, how they perceived them, and why they wanted to save them, Schrepfer also reveals the ways in which religion, social class, ethnicity, and nationality shaped the experience of the natural world. Full of engaging stories that shed new light on a history many believe they already know, her book adds subtlety and nuance to the oft-told annals of the wild and gives readers a new perspective on the wilderness movement and mountaineering.

Author: John Michael McCloskey
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: David Brower
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Category : Conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Joseph E. Taylor III
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674058607
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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Few things suggest rugged individualism as powerfully as the solitary mountaineer testing his or her mettle in the rough country. Yet the long history of wilderness sport complicates this image. In this surprising story of the premier rock-climbing venue in the United States, Pilgrims of the Vertical offers insight into the nature of wilderness adventure. From the founding era of mountain climbing in Victorian Europe to present-day climbing gyms, Pilgrims of the Vertical shows how ever-changing alignments of nature, technology, gender, sport, and consumer culture have shaped climbers’ relations to nature and to each other. Even in Yosemite Valley, a premier site for sporting and environmental culture since the 1800s, elite athletes cannot be entirely disentangled from the many men and women seeking recreation and camaraderie. Following these climbers through time, Joseph Taylor uncovers lessons about the relationship of individuals to groups, sport to society, and nature to culture. He also shows how social and historical contexts influenced adventurers’ choices and experiences, and why some became leading environmental activists—including John Muir, David Brower, and Yvon Chouinard. In a world in which wild nature is increasingly associated with play, and virtuous play with environmental values, Pilgrims of the Vertical explains when and how these ideas developed, and why they became intimately linked to consumerism.

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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: David Brower
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Category : Conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Judy Snyder
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Category : Conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Ann Lage
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Category : Conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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