Satellites in the High Country Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mark, Jason (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2015.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Environmental policy.; Environment, general.; Environmental Policy.

In this publication, journalist and adventurer Jason Mark travels beyond the bright lights and certainties of our cities to seek wildness wherever it survives. In California's Point Reyes National Seashore, a battle over oyster farming and designated wilderness pits former allies against one an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prologue: Into the Wild Chapter
• 1. Bewildered Chapter
• 2. The Mountains of California
• 3. The Forest Primeval Chapter
• 4. Fall of the Wild?
• 5. The Heart of Everything That Is
• 6. The Ecology of Fear
• 7. Back to the Stone Age
• Epilogue: Wild at Heart
• Acknowledgments
• Sources & Inspiration
• Interviews.