Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

by John Taliaferro

Book Overview

George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America's conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten--an omission...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631490133
• ISBN13: 9781631490132
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"