Cover; Contents; Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; DUST, OR ERASING THE FUTURE: THE NEVADA TEST SITE; From Hell to Breakfast; Like Moths to a Candle; April Fool's Day; Trees; Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes; Golden Hours and Iron County; Ruby Valley and the Ranch; The War; Keeping Pace with the Tortoise; WATER, OR FORGETTING THE PAST: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK; The Rainbow; Spectators; Framing the View; Vanishing (Remaining); Fire in the Garden; The Name of the Snake; Up the River of Mercy; Savage's Grave; Full Circle; Afterword; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
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Summary
""A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.""--Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the Indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking histor
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-403) and index
