The Edge of Extinction : Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands /

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Overview: In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to liv...

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Autor principal: Pretty, Jules N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nachhaltigkeit
Naturlandschaft
Indigenes Volk
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Moral and ethical aspects.
TRAVEL > Essays & Travelogues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > General.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement > Aspect moral.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Aspect moral.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sea-coast: Ngai Tahu, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
  • Mountain: Huangshan, China
  • Desert: Murujuga (Burrup), Australia
  • Steppe: Tyva, Russia
  • Snow: Karelia, Finland
  • Swamp: Okavango, Botswana
  • Marsh-farm: East Anglia, England
  • Coast: Antrim Glens, Northern Ireland
  • Snow: Nitassinan, Labrador, Canada
  • Farm-city: Amish counry, Ohio, USA
  • Swamp: Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, USA
  • Desert: Timbisha (Death Valley), California, USA
  • Coda: dreaming of the day after.

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