The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower

by Robert Wyss

Book Overview

David Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164467
• ISBN13: 9780231164467
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher