Wild heart possibility wilderness (4 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: As New. First Edition. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy card-stock wraps. Full-color, full-page photographs and illustrations. From the publisher's blurb, "This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What and where is New Zealand's wilderness? Is the wilderness something that we lock up or not? How do Maori see wilderness? How is it defined by law and what is government policy? Why? Where does that leave us? What do we want of wilderness? Can we exploit its resources?" Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [7], 8-244 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Octavo,244 pp.,photographs, softcover. Images of pristine forests, mountain ranges, untameable rivers and empty expanses of untouched coastline are the key attraction in how Aotearoa New Zealand is promoted internationally. Such wildness is at this nation's psychological and physical core. This book searches for an understanding of 'the wild', of what makes wilderness such an important part of our psyche. The seventeen essays come from trampers, scientists, conservationists, policy-makers, photographers, historians, and writers. Together they examine many aspects of the idea of wilderness. What could wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand become, and, consequently, what might we its people also become.…

Octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 244pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to inside front cover).

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. 244p With illustrations, a collection of essays that look backwards and forwards at New Zealand's 'wilderness', as a personal and cultural experience and what it will mean in the future.