The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature UPDATE:Default Title D'Eramo retraces the grand tours

D'Eramo retraces the grand tours of the first globetrotters - from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to Arthur de Gobineau and Mark Twain - before assessing the cultural meaning of the beach holiday and the 'UNESCO-cide' of major heritage sites

he presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande

the tortuous ascent of President Aristide in Haiti and the uprising in Chiapas—have borne witness to the influence of a distinctive liberationist Christianity

each raised in orthodoxy

The Ecology of Eden: An Inquiry into the Dream of Paradise and a New Vision of Our Role in Nature UPDATE:Default Title D'Eramo retraces the grand toursAuthor Contributor(s): Eisenberg, Evan Publisher: Vintage Date: 10 5 1999 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW "Dazzling . . . a prose epic." The Washington Post A mountain peak, a rolling pasture, a boulevard alive with sound and light each of us carries, deep inside, a dream of paradise. In this magisterial contribution to the literature of ecology and the environment, our nostalgia for the myth of paradise the primeval, self sufficient, nurturing