David Brower : the making of the environmental movement /

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"David Brower is one of the dominant figures in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century. Frequently compared to John Muir, Brower was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, founded Friends of the Earth, and helped secure passage of the Wilderness Act. Ta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Tom, 1942- (Autor)
Otros Autores: McKibben, Bill (writer of supplemental textual content.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Temas:
Brower, David, > 1912-2000.
Brower, David, > 1912-2000
Sierra Club > History.
Sierra Club
Environmentalists > United States > Biography.
Conservationists > United States > Biography.
Écologistes (Défenseurs de l'environnement) > États-Unis > Biographies.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Conservationists
Environmentalists
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: a tense meeting in the mountains
  • From Berkeley to the Sierra : an outdoorsman is born
  • Yosemite
  • Into the Sierra Club
  • Love and war
  • A Sierra Club leader emerges
  • The battle against dams in Dinosaur
  • The battle for wilderness
  • Big books for a cause
  • Growing pains and saving the Grand Canyon
  • Uncivil war
  • From archdruid to friend of the Earth
  • Friends of the Earth takes on the world
  • A resumption of hostilities
  • Back to the Sierra Club
  • The end of the trail.

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