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Home in the Howling Wilderness : Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand.
During the 19th century, New Zealand's South Island underwent an environmental transformation at the hands of European settlers. They diverted streams and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertilizer. Thro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Auckland University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The New Land: Imagined from Afar, Experienced at First Hand; One: Māori Environmental Knowledge: An Imperfectly Realised Resource; Two: Settlers Learning about Wind, Warmth and Rain; Three: Exceptional Challenges: Flood and Drought, Ice and Snow; Four: Away with the Old: What Place for Native Plants and Animals?; Five: In with the New: Introduced Plants and Grazing Animals; Six: Emerging Environmental Problems: Erosion and Declining Soil Fertility, Pest Animals and Weedy Plants.
- Seven: Opportunities to See, Hear and Compare: Meetings, Sales, Competitions and ExhibitionsEight: Rural People Continuing to Learn about their Environments; Appendix: Words about Home: Diaries and Letters, Commercial Transactions, Newspapers and Magazines; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.