The Man Who Built the Sierra Club : : A Life of David Brower / / Robert Wyss.
David Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that...
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Wyss, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Man Who Built the Sierra Club : A Life of David Brower / Robert Wyss. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (400 p.) : 20 b&w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. First Fight -- 2. Mountains -- 3. The Club -- 4. The Lesson -- 5. Wilderness -- 6. Forest -- 7. Parks -- 8. Glen Canyon -- 9. Progress -- 10. Books -- 11. Escalating the Risks -- 12. Grand Canyon -- 13. Losing While Winning -- 14. Diablo and Galápagos -- 15. Conflict -- 16. Campaign -- 17. Echoes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star David Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing.As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Conservationists United States Biography. Environmentalists United States Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110638578 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine and Life Sciences 2016 9783110485295 ZDB-23-DPM print 9780231164467 https://doi.org/10.7312/wyss16446 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231541312 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231541312/original |
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