| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.1

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement & the Conservation Library. By Andrew Glenn Kirk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xix + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.

The title of this book gets it backward: Andrew Kirk writes primarily about Denver's Conservation Library, secondarily about America's environmental movement, and not at all about collecting nature. (The title is especially perplexing given the better puns available with "conservation" and "preservation"!) As an institutional history of an archive, Collecting Nature works fine, but the scale of Kirk's ambitions exceeds the scale of his subject. He wants the early history of this archive to represent the early history of American environmentalism. That's a plausible leap, but a leap nonetheless. . . .

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