On extinction : how we became estranged from nature /

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? When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Challenger, Melanie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings : Natural History Museum, London
  • The first peregrination : West Penwith, Cornwall. Wild flowers ; Tin ; Ghosts
  • The second peregrination : South Georgia, Antarctica, and the Falkland Islands. Whales ; Ice ; Savages
  • The third peregrination : North Yorkshire, Manhattan Island, and Baffin Island. Bones ; Tundra
  • Endings : Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.