On extinction : how we became estranged from nature / Melanie Challenger.
On extinction : how we became estranged from nature / Melanie Challenger.
On extinction : how we became estranged from nature / Melanie Challenger.
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London : Granta, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N576.84/13
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English
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330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: THE FIRST PEREGRINATION WEST PENWITH, CORNWALL -- 1.Wild flowers -- 2.Tin -- 3.Ghosts -- THE SECOND PEREGRINATION SOUTH GEORGIA, ANTARCTICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS -- 4.Whales -- 5.Ice -- 6.Savages -- THE THIRD PEREGRINATION NORTH YORKSHIRE, MANHATTAN ISLAND AND BAF...
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London : Granta, 2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011.
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How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural, biological and industrial - to reconnect with nature? In Cornwall, hiking around the half-buried ruins of an old tin mine, Melanie Challenger started to think about the things that have disappeared from our world. When the gigantic bones of mamm...
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On extinction : how we became estranged from nature / Melanie Challenger.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
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N576.84/13
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74VvrdabQqKb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrdabQqKb
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ISBN
9781847083616
9781847081872 (hbk.)
1847081878 (hbk.)
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576.84
MMS ID
991011229549702626
