The American West as Living Space

by Wallace Stegner

Book Overview

A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472063758
• ISBN13: 9780472063758
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Required reading for all citizens.

In this short, succinct book, a collection of three lectures given in the 1980s, Stegner sums up the history, problems, and ever-so-bleak future of the American West. He paints the clearest and most inarguable case that has yet seen print against the overdevelopement of the West's water, land, and resources and, jarringly, recants his youthful appelation of the West as "the geography of hope."This should be required reading in every high school, every college, and every home in the West--make that the entire country--no, make it the world.