You have not been recognized as a subscriber to Enviromental History online. About 138 words from this article are provided below; about 460 words remain.
 		 
If you are a individual subscriber to Environmental History, you may:
• login here if you have already registered for online access.
• Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.

If you are not a subscriber to the Environmental History, you can:
•  get subscription information here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of Environmental History (8.1-present).

Instititutions can:
• get subscription information here to receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.
| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4 | The History Cooperative
9.4  
Journals link Search link Partners link Information link
October, 2004
Previous
Next
Environmental History

Table of Contents
List journal issues
Home
Get a printer-friendly version of this page
 

Book Review

The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature. By David Baron. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. 277 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and bibliography. $24.95.
David Baron's The Beast in the Garden is both an interesting case study in human-wildlife relations and a good example of how environmental history is currently being used by journalists writing for popular audiences. The reappearance of Felis concolor—variously known as the mountain lion, puma, cougar, painter, or catamount—in much of its historic habitat in the American West is at the center of this very readable story. Baron, a science reporter for National Public Radio, presents a complex tale of people responding to the unexpected presence of predators in their midst as a parable about the unintended consequences of the human affinity for nature. . . .
There are about 460 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.