Crossing the threshhold: Wilderness as waypoint

Forty days and nights: Wilderness as site of spiritual revelation

Natural and supernatural: Wilderness as a place of wild beasts

The king will ride: Wilderness as hunting ground

A state of nature: Wilderness as the home of savage man

Sublimation: Wilderness as aesthetic experience

The Yellowstone model: Wilderness as protected area

Fortress conservation: Wilderness as exclusion zone

The ice inviolate: Wilderness as cartographic conceit

Mare incognitum: Wilderness as uncharted territory

Gods of the high ground: Wilderness as sacred land

The known unknown: Wilderness as homeland

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Endnotes

Index.