![]() | Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington''s National Parks Subjects: National parks and reserves -- Public use -- Washington (State); National parks and reserves -- Washington (State) -- Management; Automobiles -- Environmental aspects -- Washington (State); Roads -- Environmental aspects -- Washington (State); In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness , David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. David Louter is a historian with the National Park Service in Seattle, Washington. |
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