INSIDE PASSAGE: A JOURNEY BEYOND BORDERS
Book ID/图书代码： 06745504B09175
English Summary/英文概要： Protecting land in parks, safe from human encroachment, has been a primary strategy of conservationists for the past century and a half. Yet drawing lines around an area and calling it wilderness does little to solve larger environmental problems. As author Richard Manning puts it in a knowingly provocative way: "Wilderness designation is not a victory, but acknowledgement of defeat." In Inside Passage, Manning takes us on a thought-provoking tour of the lands along the Pacific Northwest’s Inside Passage-from south-east Alaska down through Puget Sound, and then on to the northern Oregon coast and the Columbia River system-as he explores the dichotomy between "wilderness" and "civilisation" and the often disastrous effects of industrialisation. Through vivid description and conversations with people in the region, Manning brings new insights to the area’s most pressing environmental concerns-the salmon crisis, deforestation, hydroelectric dams, urban sprawl-and examines various innovative ways they are being addressed. He details efforts to restore degraded ecosystems and to integrate economic development with environmental protection, and looks at powerful new tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that are increasingly being used to further conservation efforts. Throughout, Manning focuses on the hopeful possibility that we can redesign the human enterprise to a scale more appropriate to the nature that holds it, that rather than drawing borders around nature, we might instead start placing borders on human behaviour. Perhaps, he suggests, we can begin to behave in all places as if all places matter to us as much as wilderness, and, in the process, claim all of nature as our own. Inside Passage is a wide-ranging and thoughtful exploration by a gifted writer, and an important work for anyone interested in the Pacific Northwest, or concerned about the future of our relationship to the natural world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《内湾航道》是本极富颠覆性意义的旅行游记。航行的中心是太平洋西北部（下称该地区），行程从阿拉斯加东南部南下华盛顿州的普及湾，再至俄勒冈州北海岸，最后到哥伦比亚河域。由RICHARD MANNING这位天才作家作向导，这次航行可不是一般意义上的去几个旅游热点逛逛而已，相反，作者却带我们踏上了探询美国经济发展状况的奇妙旅行，对美国西北太平洋地区的经济发展的宏观战略追根求源，分析了美国经济面貌对当今整个世界范围内（包括西北太平洋地区本身）的人与自然的冲击力，可以说这是场收益匪浅的探险之旅。
MANNING通过生动形象的描写，以及他与该地区当地人有趣的攀谈，让我们进一步认识到了那片土地上所面临的迫在眉睫的环境问题和危机：郊区化扩张，大麻哈鱼危机，森林乱砍乱伐，水力发电大坝；同时，他还介绍了多种正在实施的针对此类问题的解决方案。
书中不仅论述了低、高技术产业、大众旅游业以及过度消费引发的消极且破坏性强的负面影响，同时它还详述了人们是如何付出努力来拯救日益恶化的生态系统，为解决地方性环保问题上，又是如何尝试运用类似GIS地理信息系统，以及如何平衡经济发展与自然系统保护问题的。
过去的一百五十多年里，我们始终认为环保策略的最佳方案就是通过建造公园和划分狩猎区这样的措施，来保护大自然，但是MANNING却指出，划分出一个地区，然后管它叫“野生区“，这并不足以解决日益扩大的环境问题。就像他有意挑衅的说道：“划分‘野生区’并不说明我们胜利了，相反，这是一种妥协的表示。”
在《内湾航道》里，MANNING把焦点集中到了一中积极的设想中，重新规划人类在包括西北太平洋地区在内的各个区域里的企业运作与活动，使他更好的适应该地区的自然环境，这样我们就免却了划分自然区域这样尴尬的境域，并开始更多的约束人类的活动范围。他提议，也许我们可以从各个地方开始行动，就好象‘野生区’和其它‘非野生区’都是同等重要的，这样一来所有的自然都归我们所有。
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About the Author/作者介绍： RICHARD MANNING是在蒙大拿州LOLO市的工作记者兼作家，他多次获奖。他的作品有《食物的疆域》、《草地》、《一间舒适的房子》、《最后据点》。
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