The Ecology of Eden. by Eisenberg, Evan - 1998.

London:: Picador, 1998.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue boards with gilt spine text; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) . Notes, bibliography, index. Dark blue endpapers. Description: Following is taken from the publisher's blurb: ''An astonishing, visionary reading of the story of Eden. This unfurls the history of the relationship of the human and the natural, Eisenberg explores the ways in which nature has been remade, from the biological waves of change before man's arrival, to the mythos, stories, architecture and scientific discoveries we have used to make sense of our baffled position on the edge. He shows how the contradictions of this relationship define the central controversy of ecology today: the conflict between the Planet Fetishers, who dream of returning to Eden, restoring a state of harmony in which wilderness reclaims the Earth, and the Planet Managers, who dream of a man-made paradise, one that presumes a harmony between the best interests of wise humans and their planet.''