The Ends of the Earth
Subtitle: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (Studies in Environment and History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521343657
Subjects: Applied ecology; Nature conservation; Sociology; History: American; History: World; Human Geography; World - General; History / World; Human ecology--History; Environmental policy; History; Human ecology
First sentence: IN THE EARLY DAYS of October 1492, great flocks of birds, migrating southward along the eastern flyway of North America, following an ancient course over open water far from sight of land, fly over three small Spanish caravels.