Coming to Pass : Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change.

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"Coming to Pass tells the story of a little-developed necklace of northern Gulf Coast islands. Both a field guide to a beloved and impermanent Florida landscape and a call for its protection, Susan Cerulean's memoir chronicles the uniquely beautiful coast as it once was, as it is now, and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cerulean, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
©2015
Temas:
Islands > Florida > Apalachicola Bay.
Island ecology > Florida > Apalachicola Bay.
Coastal ecology > Florida > Apalachicola Bay.
Îles > Floride > Apalachicola, Baie d'.
Écologie des îles > Floride > Apalachicola, Baie d'.
Écologie littorale > Floride > Apalachicola, Baie d'.
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Coastal ecology
Ecology
Island ecology
Islands
Apalachicola Bay (Fla.) > Environmental conditions.
Apalachicola, Baie d' (Flor.) > Conditions environnementales.
Gulf of Mexico > Apalachicola Bay
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Passing of a Palm Cathedral; PART 1 Origin Stories; 1 Sand Supply; 2 Front Beach; 3 Relict Ridges; 4 Middens and Lagoons; 5 The Passes; 6 Upland: Where the Beach Used to Be; PART 2 Territory; 7 The First People; 8 Beach Badges; 9 Claiming a Space on the Sand: Willets; 10 What the Eagle Calls Home; 11 The Rights of Birds; PART 3 Diminishing Islands; Direct Take; 12 The Ways We Fish; 13 Oystercatchers; 14 Robbing the River; Habitat Loss; 15 Evolution's Larger Concerns: Beach Mice; 16 Counting Christmas Birds; Pollution; 17 Stealing the Dark from Sea Turtles
  • 18 Standing Watch for OilClimate Change and Sea Level Rise; 19 "The Shore, Being of Shifting Sand"; 20 Sand Envy; 21 The Edge; PART 4 We Are Not Separate; 22 Candlemas: Reclaiming the Rhythm of Time; 23 Red Wolves; 24 We Are Not Separate; Saint Island Prayer; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography

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