TY - JOUR
AU - Gamber, John Blair
AB - Book Reviews 249 are brought into meaningful detail. Through Byrd's works Ausband anchors his own life experiences and love of the land, leaving the reader with an intimate understanding of the promise and limitations of eigh- teenth-century natural science—and with a better understanding of how wilderness has been lost to centuries of development and mis- management. In spite of the environmental degradation that the land has endured, Ausband's text is dominated not by a sense of loss but instead demon- strates a genuine respect for the land and expresses a sense of renewal: "They built cities and dams and farms, changing the land in ways Byrd could only have imagined in dreams ... . And, yet, for all that, much has remained ... . Twice I have seen wildcats here, and once in a very great while it is possible to see the tracks of a fat bear. I think William Byrd would be pleased with that" (180). Throughout Byrd's Line Ausband inventories what has been lost and documents the rem- nants, often providing detailed directions that allow the reader to lo- cate and visit the places Byrd described. The result is a book that pro- vides a window 
TI - Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/11.1.249
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/forgotten-fires-native-americans-and-the-transient-wilderness-2aC9gLRmK2
SP - 249
EP - 250
VL - 11
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -