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

byJohn Taliaferro

Grinnell is John Taliaferro's biographical portrait of america’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the wider field of biography & autobiography. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant. Historical context and individual experience remain equally important to the book's explanation.

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

624

ISBN

9781631490132