The Quiet Crisis
Stewart Udall
#2598 of 3,809 books · #857 in History
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1964).
Reviews the men who explored our continent, and the great names of conservation history from George Perkins Marsh to Gifford Pinchot, as well reviewing the raiders and despoilers, the problems of preserving green spaces in cities as well as countrysides, and problems of water and air pollution.
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780380015153
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Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1964)
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