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A commentary on THE IDEA OF WILDERNESS: FROM PREHISTORY TO THE AGE OF ECOLOGY. By Max Oelschlaeger. Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut). $18.00 (pb). xiii + 477 p.; index. ISBN: 0-300-05370-3. 1991. ECOSPEAK: RHETORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN AMERICA. By M Jimmie Killingsworth andJacqueline S. Palmer. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (Illinois). $34.95. xiv + 312 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 0-8093-1750-8. 1992. THE WEALTH OF NATURE: ENVIRONMENTAL HisTORY AND THE ECOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. By Donald Worster. Oxford Universit Press, New York. $25.00. xi + 255 p.; index. ISBN: 0-19507624-9. [Book of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or as lectures.] 1993. BEGINNING AGAIN: PEOPLE AND NATURE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. By David Ehrenfeld. Oxford University Press, New York. $22.00. xiv + 216 p.; index. ISBN: 0-19507812-8. 1993. A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT. American Century Series. By Philip Shabecoff: Hill & Wang, New York. $10.95 (paper). xv + 352 p. + 12 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 0-8090-1558-7. 1993.