Swan, Christopher
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) US author whose Near Future tale of redemptive Ecology, YV88 (1977) with Chet Roaman, describes the transformation of the eponymous Yosemite Valley National Park by 1988 into an enclave no longer savaged by roads, rampant tourism, exploitation. A light railroad system replaces cars; the environmentally destructive O'Shaughnessy Dam. The vision was attractive, but as advocacy the book failed utterly. [JC]
Christopher Cushing Swan
born 1946
works
- YV88: An Eco-Fiction of Tomorrow (San Francisco, California: Sierra Club Books, 1977) with Chet Roaman [hb/]
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