Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins MarshUniversity of Virginia Press, 5 d’oct. 2012 - 300 pàgines "Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh’s Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and cultural heritage in ways that sustain both. John Elder’s poetic meditations on land and life demonstrate that only by searching beyond our familiar boundaries can we discover better ways of living back at home."—Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration "This collaboration—between George Perkins Marsh and John Elder, between Vermont and Italy, between maple and olive—is one of the smartest, soundest, deepest books about the relationship between people and nature that I’ve ever read. It will be a classic."—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Elder’s impassioned pilgrimage shows us how to delight in messy wilderness, to secure a curative habitation of the world, and, with Marsh, to lend ecological nous to our gravest task: knowing ourselves and respecting one another. Let the maple seeds and olive stones of Elder’s visionary harvest restore to us a reflective and redemptory future."—from the foreword by David Lowenthal The pivotal figure in Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded as America’s first environmentalist. Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy, where, witnessing the ecological devastation wrought upon the landscape by runaway deforestation and the plundering of other natural resources, he was moved to produce his famous manifesto, Man and Nature. Marsh drew parallels between the despoiled Italian environment and his home landscape of Vermont, warning that the latter was vulnerable to ecological woes of a similar magnitude if not carefully maintained and protected. In short, his was a prescient voice for stewardship. Elder follows in Marsh’s footsteps along a trajectory running from Vermont to Italy, and at length fetches up at the managed forest of Vallombrosa. Punctuated throughout with learned and genial considerations of the poetry of Wordsworth, Basho, Dante, and Frost, Elder’s narrative takes up issues of sustainability as practiced locally, reports on family doings, and returns finally—as did Marsh’s—to Vermont, where he measures traditional stewardship values against more aggressive conservation-oriented measures such as the expansion of wilderness areas. John Elder, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, is the author of Reading the Mountains of Home and The Frog Run. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism |
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... environmental history. Two ofthese were American scholars living andworking in Europe,Marcus Hall and James Sievert, who kindly shared both theirown research and writing and their guidance on a memorable outing tothe forestsand parkat ...
... Environmental Studies Programwas an excellent resourceon the political and cultural context of environmental policy. Natasha Chang ofour Italian Department helped me translate an archaic passage aboutthe forestof Vallombrosa. Forest ...
... environmental thought and practice. While some ofour weekendswere spent inArtena or taking a trip tothe beachwith Rita'scousin Gloria and her family, our other outings often found us hiking through the ancient chestnut and beechforests ...
... environmental literature atMiddlebury and our family's newer endeavors in sugaring and sustainable forestry. ButI learned, during our sojourn abroad, that this wasabridge that could be crossed in both directions. Marsh's vision, andthe ...
... environmental history of Europe inthe classical and medieval eras with thatofhis own time and placethat Marshrecognized the urgency forrestraint inour private practices andpublic policies alike. Writingas he didinanera whensteam ...
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