Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail

From: Environmental History | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Holmes, Steven J | Copyright information

Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. By Larry Anderson. Creating the North American Landscape series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xi + 452 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth $45.00.

As an attempted encapsulation of Benton MacKaye's varied life and work, the subtitle of Larry Anderson's fascinating biography might be extended almost indefinitely: forester, socialist, journalist, ecologist, radical, visionary ... U...

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