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On extinction : how we became estranged from nature / Melanie Challenger.

By: Challenger, Melanie.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2012General Notes: Originally published: London : Granta, 2011.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326).Description: 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781619020184; 1619020181.Other title: How we became estranged from nature.Subject(s): Challenger, Melanie -- Travel | Environmental responsibility | Extinction (Biology) | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Environmental degradation | Polar regions -- Description and travelDDC classification: 576.84
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.
Summary: When gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from Siberian in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. Explores disappearances in nature and why they should concern us.
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Originally published: London : Granta, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326).

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.

When gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from Siberian in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. Explores disappearances in nature and why they should concern us.

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