Our Oldest Task: Making Sense of Our Place in Nature

by Eric T Freyfogle and Eric T. Freyfogle

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"This is a book about nature and culture," Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure." Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking back to a key phrase from the essays of eminent American conservationist Aldo Leopold, Our Oldest Task spins together lessons from history and philosophy, the life sciences and politics, economics...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:022632639X

ISBN13:9780226326399

Release Date:August 2017

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"

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Nature Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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