Invention of the Wilderness

<p>In <em>Invention of the Wilderness </em>Bruce Bond explores the wilderness as a spiritual psychological and ecological realm--a territory that depending on our tolerances and affections calls out for order exploitation expansion or preservation. Although to talk of inventing the wilderness seems paradoxical the book seeks to reclaim the etymological root of invention as a venturing in. To invent a wilderness is to go inward by way of attentive engagement in the natural world to affirm and liberate imaginative expression as no mere mirror of nature but a force of it. At times meditative and melancholic though also vibrant and full of life <em>Invention of the Wilderness </em>proposes an embodied and reflective way of being in the world.</p>