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Title Engineering Eden : the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature / Jordan Fisher Smith.
Author Smith, Jordan Fisher.
Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2016]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  978.752 SMI    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description x, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-356) and index.
Summary Examines the 1975 case of Harry Walker's death by grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, in which the question of if, and how, humans should engineer and control nature was posed.
Subject Yellowstone National Park -- Management -- History -- 20th century.
Yellowstone National Park -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 20th century.
Bear attacks -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 20th century.
Violent deaths -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 20th century.
United States. National Park Service -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Negligence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Trials -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0307454266 (hardcover) : $28.00
9780307454263 (hardcover)
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