Texts
We will be using five books this semester, all of which are required and are available at Books Underground in the St. Paul Student Center.
- Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. New York: Vintage, 2002. ISBN: 0679768114 (paper). $13.00.
- Ryan, John C., and Alan Thein Durning. Stuff : The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch, 1997. ISBN: 1886093040 (paper). $14.95.
- Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Anchor Books, 1997. ISBN: 0385486804 (paper). $12.95.
- Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. New York: Vintage, 1998. ISBN: 0375700994 (paper). $14.00.
- Freyfogle, Eric T., ed. The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001. ISBN: 1559639210 (paper). $18.00.
I have also made a limited number of additional, required readings available on a secure web site. These readings can be accessed by clicking on the links in the schedule and entering your username and password, which will be given out in class. To view these readings, you will need a copy of Adobe Reader, free software for viewing and printing pdf files on your computer.
Further Reading For an annotated list of selected Internet resources in environmental history and related disciplines, see the Related Resources section of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) web site, which I also maintain.
Students interested in further reading on the subjects covered by this course are encouraged to consult two working bibliographies I maintain on place and landscape:
URL: http://www.agricola.umn.edu/rhet3383/fall04/texts.html
Last Modified: 25 August 2004