| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.3

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Book Review

Forest and Garden, Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897–1949. By Melanie L. Simo. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. vi + 296 pp., black and white illustrations. $29.25.
Melanie Simo's Forest and Garden explores wildness as a theme in literature (and also in some art) and landscape design and management during the first half of the twentieth century. She derived the title from Garden and Forest, a late nineteenth-century journal edited by Charles Sprague Sargent, which ceased publication in 1897, the beginning of the era Simo examines. The book comprises ten chapters divided into two equal parts titled "Across the Continent" and "Over Time."	1
In "Across the Continent" Simo offers vantages on desert environments of the Southwest, the great prairie landscapes of America, and mountain landscapes west and east. In the final two chapters of part 1, Simo discusses San Francisco Bay, New York, and Boston. In this section Simo intertwines ideas gleaned from writers such as John Van Dyke (The Desert, 1901), Mary Austin (Land of Little Rain, 1903), Willa Cather (O Pioneers!, 1913), Emerson Hough (Passing of the Frontier, 1918), Walter Prichard Eaton (Skyline Camps, 1922), Charles Keeler (The Simple Home, 1904), and Mariana Griswald Van Rensselaer (Art Out-of-Doors, 1893, 1925). Those literary perspectives also are linked to the evolving vantage of Aldo Leopold, the landscape architecture of Jens Jensen, the large-scale planning of Benton MacKay, and the professional writing of New York Landscape Architect Charles Downing Lay, among others.	. . .

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