| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. By David Lowenthal. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. xxvi, 605 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-295-97942-9.)

This book easily surpasses its previous avatar, David Lowenthal's George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958), hitherto the standard life of the author of the seminal early conservationist summa, Man and Nature (first edition 1864). This new biography is a more compendious work of research, more boldly interpretative, more zealously resourceful in pressing the case for Marsh as a prophet of environmental reform. . . .

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