Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: Wildness Untamed: The Evolution of an Ideal -- I: WHOSE WILD IDEA? -- 1. Wise and Sustainable Uses: Revisioning Wilderness -- 2. Habitable Earth: Wilderness, Empire, and Race in America -- 3. Earth-Talk: Conservation and the Ecology of Language -- II: CROSS-CULTURAL WILD -- 4. Pancultural Wilderness -- 5. Reminiscing about a Sleepy Lake: Borderland Views of Women, Place, and the Wild -- 6. Confessions of an Eco-Colonialist: Responsible Knowing among the Inuit -- III: THE ART OF THE WILD -- 7. Out of the Map, into the Territory: The Earthly Topology of Time -- 8. Silent Wolves: The Howl of the Implicit -- 9. The Idea of the North: An Iceberg History -- 10. The Princess of the Stars: Music for a Wilderness Lake -- IV: THE WILD REVISED -- 11. Beauty and the Beasts: Predators in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains -- 12. Healing by the Wilderness Experience -- 13. Urban Wilderness -- Epilogue: Paradox Wild -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.