The Abstract Wild
- ISBN-10
- 0816516995
- ISBN-13
- 9780816516995
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Author
- Jack Turner
Description
Turner argues that once any land, even national parks and wilderness areas, is managed it ceases to be wild.
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