Cozine (U. of Louisiana-Monroe) revises his 1976 dissertation Assault on a Wilderness, for Texas A&M University, completed in the aftermath of the 1974 creation of the Big Thicket National Preserve in southeast Texas. It chronicles interactions between the densely grown area and first humans then corporations over the centuries. Pete A.Y. Gunter (philosophy, U. of North Texas) updates the account in an afterword. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)