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Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism [Pioneers of Conservation].
by Miller, Char
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1559638230
- ISBN 13
- 9781559638234
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear, base spine lightly bumped, crease front cover & few pages near spine. 458 pp. This award-winning biography, the first in more than four decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed American conservationist and progressive politician Gifford Pinchot. He was chief of the US Forest Service and Governor of Pennsylvania. Reveals Pinchot as a man with a profound concern for nature and a burgeoning interest in global resource conservation, whose activism not only helped define environmental politics in the 20th century, but whose ideas remain strikingly relevant today.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25052
- Title
- Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism [Pioneers of Conservation].
- Author
- Miller, Char
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1559638230
- ISBN 13
- 9781559638234
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- biography, environment, conservation, history, united states
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....