Deforesting the Earth
Subtitle: From Prehistory to Global Crisis
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 715
ISBN-13: 9780226899268
Subjects: World history; Deforestation; Nature; Environmental Studies; History: World; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Natural Resources; Trees & Forests - General; Nature / Natural Resources; Forests & Forestry; Clearing of land; Forests and forestry; History
First sentence: If ever there was a beginning to the modern forest it was at the end of the Ice Age just over 10,000 years ago when the great sheets of ice that covered the Northern Hemisphere began to melt and retreat.