Exceptional Mountains : A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes /

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"Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Weltzien, O. Alan (Oliver Alan)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Volcanoes > Social aspects.
Regionalism.
Outdoor recreation > Environmental aspects.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Geography.
Environmental policy.
Ecology.
Consumers > Psychology.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Mountaineering.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Mountains.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.)
TRAVEL/United States/West/Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)
Environmental policy > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Consumers > Northwest, Pacific > Psychology > History.
Mountaineering > Environmental aspects > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Outdoor recreation > Environmental aspects > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Regionalism > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Mountains > Social aspects > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Volcanoes > Social aspects > Northwest, Pacific > History.
Pacific Northwest.
Northwest, Pacific > Environmental conditions.
Northwest, Pacific > Geography.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region's beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological landscape, and with it the narratives we compose about ourselves. Exceptional Mountains is a cultural history of the Northwest volcanoes and the environmental impact of outdoor recreation in this region. It probes the relationship between these volcanoes and regional identity, particularly in the era of mass mountaineering and population growth in the Northwest. O. Alan Weltzien demonstrates how mountaineering is but one conspicuous example of the outdoor recreation industry's unrestricted and problematic growth. He explores the implications of our assumptions that there are no limits to our outdoor recreation habits and that access to the highest mountains should include amenities for affluent consumers. Each chapter probes the mountain-based regional ethos and the concomitant sense of privilege and entitlement from different vantages to illuminate the consumerist mind-set as a reductive--and deeply problematic--version of experience and identity in and around some of the nation's most striking mountains"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780803290426

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