By Carolyn Merchant
This revised variation of Carolyn Merchant’s vintage Reinventing Eden has been up-to-date with a brand new foreword and afterword.
Visionary quests to come to the backyard of Eden have formed Western tradition. This publication strains the belief of rebuilding the primeval backyard from its origins to its most recent incarnations and provides a daring new method to take into consideration the earth.
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