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Man and Nature is a book written by George Perkins Marsh in 1864.

It documents the effects of human action on the environment.

Contents

The book consists of ten chapters:

• Chapter I - Introductory.
• Chapter II - Transfer, modification, and extirpation of vegetable and of animal species.
• Chapter III - The Woods.
• Chapter IV - The Waters.
• Chapter V - The Sands.
• Chapter VI - Great projects of physical change accomplished or proposed by Man.

Publication

• Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action. (1864)
• The Earth as Modified By Human Action. Second edition (1874) ISBN 0-405-02677-3 (1970 reprint)

It was also translated into Italian by Marsh in 1870.

External links

• The Earth as Modified by Human Action, available for free via Project Gutenberg.
• Library of Congress - text and images of the book.