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George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal’s earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958). Marsh’s devotion to the repair of nature, to the concerns of working people, to women’s rights, and to historical stewardship resonate more than ever. His Vermont birthplace is now a national park chronicling American conservation, and the crusade he launched is now global. Marsh’s seminal book Ma...
Man and Nature
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Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh (Volume I)
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Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh, Vol. 1 of 2 It would seem that the reverence for women which was so noticeable a trait in the descendants of Colonel Marsh was theirs by right of inheritance. When Mrs. Marsh died, at an advanced age, her venerable husband, in spite of all remonstrance, refused to follow the funeral-procession in a carriage, but walked, with bared head, behind the hearse until it reached the distant cemetery. The boy's eagerness and capacity for acquiring knowledge decided his father to give him every opportunity in his power to obtain it, and in 1782 he entered Dartmouth College. This institution had received its charter and its name, only nineteen year...
Making Salmon
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History
