The author traces the process through which the modern German environmental imagination was created, as Germans began to look at nature as environmental and the idea of the modern scenic landscape was born. She examines nature writing, landscape paintings, nature photography, and films representing travels to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, Latin America, the Baltic coast, the American West, the Caribbean, the Amazon, and other locales by Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Caspar David Friedrich, Albert Bierstadt, Leni Riefenstahl, and Werner Herzog, to illustrate the emergence of the modern German environmental imagination. She also describes the German dialectical tradition of nature philosophy; how nature is conceptualized in the modern German intellectual tradition, with discussion of Kant, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse; the German mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s; polar nature; and tropical nature. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)