Man and the earth
By: by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Publisher: Duffield & Company
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Copyright date: 1905
Subjects: Natural resources; Mines and mineral resources; Food supply; Soils; Fisheries; Landscapes; End of the universe
Notes: "Several of the chapters in this book ... have been published in the International quarterly."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Earth and man; title: The future of power; title: The exhaustion of the metals; title: The unwon lands; title: Land from the waters; title: The problem of the Nile; title: The maintenance of the soil; title: The resources of the sea; title: The changes to come in the human period; title: The beauty of the earth; title: The future of nature upon the earth; title: The last of earth and man; title: The attitude of man to the earth, summary and conclusions.