The World of George Perkins Marsh, America's First Conservationist and Environmentalist: An Illustrated Biography by Curtis, Jane & Will & Frank Lieberman - 1982

good. paperback. cover and corner wear. soiled covers. dings on spine.

Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press for The Woodstock Foundation, 1982. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Frank Lieberman (designer). 123, [5] pages. With over 100 antique photographs. Initial printing was limited to 3500 copies. This work was published in observance of the 100th anniversary of Marsh's death in 1882. It graphically portrays the many-faceted career of this extraordinarily versatile Vermonter. Marsh is best known for his pioneering environmental study, Man and Nature, which was first published in 1864. Marsh was a lawyer, linguist, businessman, farmer, designer, Congressman, and diplomat (he was Minister to Turkey and to the newly-united Kingdom of Italy, where he spent the last twenty-one years of his life, a tour of duty unprecedented in American diplomacy). In Congress he supported creating of the Smithsonian Institution. Jane Curtis is a Smith graduate, a bookshop owner, and a writer for the printed word and for radio. Will… Read More