Description: Our Better Nature : Environment and the Making of San Francisco, Paperback by Dreyfus, Philip J., ISBN 0806193123, ISBN-13 9780806193120, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both. Dreyfus examines the ways that San Franciscans remade the landscape to fit their needs, and how their actions reflected and affected their ideas about nature, from the destruction of wetlands and forests to the creation of Golden Gate and Yosemite parks, the Sierra Club, and later, the birth of the modern environmental movement.
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Book Title: Our Better Nature : Environment and the Making of San Francisco
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Publication Name: Our Better Nature : Environment and the Making of San Francisco
Language: English
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: United States / State & Local / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Human Geography, Social History, Ecology, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Subject Area: Nature, Social Science, History
Author: Philip J. Dreyfus
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
