Author: Schramm, Richard R. (NHC Vice President for Education Programs, 1984–2016)
Advisor: Fleissner, Jennifer (NHC Fellow, 2011–12)
Jack London’s story “To Build a Fire” warns not only against trekking through a wilderness at seventy-five below but also against seeing nature simply as a resource to be exploited and controlled.
Read MoreSubjects: Literature; Literary Criticism; Environment and Nature; American Literature; Short Stories; Environmentalism; Fiction