Wild at Heart av Alice Outwater

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<p><b>"Alice Outwater¿s infectiously readable <i>Wild at Heart</i> captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." ¿Alan Weisman, author, <i>The World Without Us </i>and <i>Countdown</i></b><br><br><b>"A wonderful book. Information rich to say the least, and the indigenous human connections and portrait of the deep connectivity of nature, are both strong elements." ¿Jim McClintock, author of <i>A Naturalist Goes Fishing</i></b><br><br>Nature on the brink? Maybe not. With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made. In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, <i>Wild at Heart</i> shows how western attitudes towards nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years.<br><br>The Chinook gave thanks for King Salmon''s gifts. The Puritans saw Nature as a frightening wilderness, full of "uncooked meat." With the industrial