David Schuyler: 2 books
Embattled River
The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s. Through his investigative narrative, Schuyler uncovers the critical role of this iconic American waterway in the emergence of modern environmentalism...
Sanctified Landscape
Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States,...