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Book Review
| Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. By Kevin R. Marsh. Foreword by William Cronon. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xv + 227 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, £17.99.)
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Towering mountains. Pristine landscapes. Solitary freedom. Virgin forests. These are common images westerners have associated with wilderness. While they may capture pieces of the postwar wilderness struggle, they widely miss the mark and larger significance, and we focus on them at our peril, according to Kevin R. Marsh's excellent new book, Drawing Lines in the Forest. |
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