The edge of extinction
Subtitle: travels with enduring people in vanishing lands
By: Jules Pretty
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780801453304
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Effect of environment on; Human beings; Moral and ethical aspects; Nature; Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sea-coast: Ngai Tahu, Aotearoa (New Zealand); title: Mountain: Huangshan, China; title: Desert: Murujuga (Burrup), Australia; title: Steppe: Tyva, Russia; title: Snow: Karelia, Finland; title: Swamp: Okavango, Botswana; title: Marsh-farm: East Anglia, England; title: Coast: Antrim Glens, Northern Ireland; title: Snow: Nitassinan, Labrador, Canada; title: Farm-city: Amish counry, Ohio, USA; title: Swamp: Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, USA; title: Desert: Timbisha (Death Valley), California, USA; title: Coda: dreaming of the day after.