The Idea of Wilderness - From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology (Broché)

How has the concept of wild nature changed over the millennia ? And what have been the environmental consequences ? Ina wide-ranging work of intellectual history, Max Oelschlaeger presents a stimulating new examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages — from early totemism through Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian supernaturalism to the rise of materialism and modernism.