Continuing an editorial relationship started with American Oasis, David Treuer at Pantheon has acquired North American rights to Kyle Paoletta’s Out to Pasture: How Reviving the Wilderness Can Save America from Itself. This history of the American relationship to the natural world will show how the landscapes of Maine, Kansas, and California have been reimagined and altered over the past two centuries. Focusing on overlapping episodes of westward expansion, homesteading, extractive industry, back-to-the-land movements, conservationism, and rewilding, Paoletta will not only explore how people’s attitudes about land have shifted over time, he will also sketch out the possibilities for a future where civilization and nature thrive in harmony.
