List of Illustrations 9
The Albums 11
Acknowledgments 13
Contributors 15
Foreword to the Paperback Edition 19

BEGINNINGS
Introduction: In Search of Nature 23
William Cronon

PARADISE LOST AND FOUND
The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature 69
William Cronon
Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted 91
Anne Whiston Spirn
Amazonia as Edenic Narrative 114
Candace Slater Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative 132
Carolyn Merchant
AT WORK AND PLAY
"Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?":
Work and Nature 171
Richard White
Looking for Nature at the Mall: A Field Guide to the Nature Company 186
Jennifer Price
"Touch the Magic" 204
Susan G. Davis

CONTESTED TERRAINS
Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties 233
Michael G. Barbour
On the Search for a Root Cause: Essentialist Tendencies in
Environmental Discourse 256
Jeffrey C. Ellis
Whose Nature? The Contested Moral Terrain of Ancient Forests 269
James D. Proctor
Nature as Community: The Convergence of Environment and
Social Justice 298
Giovanna Di Chiro
Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture: It's All in the Family:
Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United 321
Donna J. Haraway

COMMON PLACES
Reinventing Common Nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore—
A Meandering Tale of a Double Nature 379
Kenneth R. Olwig
Simulated Nature and Natural Simulations: Rethinking the Relation
between the Beholder and the World 409
N. Katherine Hayles
Toward a Philosophy of Nature 426
Robert P. Harrison
PARTINGS
Toward a Conclusion 447
On the Nature of Nature: An Eclectic Reading List 461
Notes 477
Index 547