Richard Manning
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Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders
Richard Manning
“This book is about an idea that rests at the junction of what we call wilderness and civilization. Simply, it is a call for rethinking, and more importantly, reconstructing, our relationship with nature.”—from Inside Passage.
Protecting land in parks, safe from human encroachment, has been a primary strategy of conservationists for the past century and a half. Yet drawing lines around an area and calling it wilderness does little to solve larger environmental problems. As author Richard Manning puts it in a knowingly provocative way: “Wilderness designation is not a victory, but acknowledgement of defeat.”.
In Inside Passage, Manning takes us on a thought-provoking tour of the lands along the Pacific Northwest’s Inside Passage—from southeast Alaska down through Puget Sound, and then on to the northern Oregon coast and the Columbia River system—as he explores the dichotomy between “wilderness” and “civilization” and the often disastrous effects of industrialization.
Through vivid description and conversations with people in the region, Manning brings…
