{"product_id":"paradise-wild-reimagining-american-nature","title":"Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eParadise Wild: Reimagining American Nature\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Oates\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780870715532\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOregon State University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn Paradise Wild, David Oates addresses this and many other provocative questions as he explores the persistent myth of Eden from several different angles.\u003cp\u003eAs a lifelong mountaineer and reader of nature literature, as a scholar, as a descendant of naturalist William Bartram, and as a gay ex-Baptist who took to the mountains to test his masculinity, Oates has thought deeply about how nature and culture interact in our lives and about the contemporary debate over wilderness and environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParadise Wild brings all these elements together in a lively, genre-hopping book that will move readers emotionally and intellectually, at the same time that it contributes to the ongoing debate in scholarly and environmental circles over the meaning of \"nature\" and \"wilderness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParadise Wild tells stories, explores major scholarship and literature of nature, and analyzes how the misapplied myth of Eden has mired Americans in a hopeless \"Paradise Lost\" mentality that belies the true, ever-present wildness in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOates argues that mourning for a lost paradise is a dead end that cannot help us combat the real damage we're doing to ourselves and the rest of the world. He proposes a healthy re-mythologizing of the Eden story as a way of celebrating \"wildness\" -- the Eden in each moment and in each cell, that cannot be lost. His book is about welcoming that wildness into the midst of daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bold and original work will appeal to general readers as well as to scholars and students with an interest in environmental literature and philosophy, nature writing, cultural studies, and queer studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Oregon State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature | David Oates | Paperback | 9780870715532 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks I 1790125","offer_id":51050932371714,"sku":"1790125","price":33.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41FhNrqM-dL.jpg?v=1794626441","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/paradise-wild-reimagining-american-nature","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}