Overview
- uplifting but realistic response to the Anthropocene debate that has shaken the
- conservation community, offering a new definition and exploration of 'wildness'
- for the 21st century
- Jason Mark is a prolific freelance writer and respected speaker who is well-connected within the conservation community
- Mark's writing is poetic, insightful, and a pleasure to read; he has the all-too-rare ability to take a careful and thorough look at his subject without taking himself too seriously
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About this book
In this publication, journalist and adventurer Jason Mark travels beyond the bright lights and certainties of our cities to seek wildness wherever it survives. In California's Point Reyes National Seashore, a battle over oyster farming and designated wilderness pits former allies against one another, as locals wonder whether wilderness should be untouched, farmed, or something in between. In Washington's Cascade Mountains, a modern-day wild woman and her students learn to tan hides and start fires without matches, attempting to connect with a primal past out of reach for the rest of society. And in Colorado's High Country, dark skies and clear air reveal a breathtaking expanse of stars, flawed only by the arc of a satellite passing—beauty interrupted by the traffic of a million conversations. These expeditions to the edges of civilization's grid show us that, although our notions of pristine nature may be shattering, the mystery of the wild still exists—and in fact,it is more crucial than ever.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Satellites in the High Country
Book Subtitle: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man
Authors: Jason Mark
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-581-6
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Jason Mark 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-581-6Published: 10 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 306
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Environmental Policy