Fragile Land
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: January 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780748662289
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Places & peoples: general interest; History; Environmental Studies; Science; Scotland; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Earth Sciences - General; Environmental Science; General; Science / Earth Sciences; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions
First sentence: NOTHING MUCH HAS changed in the fifty years since the ecologist Fraser Darling remarked that Scotland's bare, heather hills were a man-made desert.