Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks

by David Louter

Book Overview

In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986069
• ISBN13: 9780295986067
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher