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The first edition of this book, published by Pearson, appeared in 2006, and four years later it was translated into Polish.

This edition of Environmentalism, published late in 2011, updates the 2006 text and adds photographs and twenty-seven documents, from Wordsworth to fox hunting.  It addresses the paradox of why widespread nature loving in the western world has been accompanied by an accelerated exploitation of the very  environment we purport to revere.

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"Del Mar has done something very difficult here--in a small space, he has told engagingly and well the history of environmentalism, not just in America but across national frontiers. . . . with grace and even wit,. . . ."  Elliott Gorn, Brown University

". . . in its simplicity lies its brilliance.  You don’t need a PhD, or even a quiet spot, to understand the ideas being discussed- which is a complete breath of fresh air."  The Sydney Green Sheet

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