Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands - Hardcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

 
9780792269090: Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0792269098 ISBN 13: 9780792269090
Verlag: National Geographic, 2002

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Last Stand takes readers from the tallgrass prairies of Kansas to the Arctic tundra of Alaska to the deserts of the Southwest and bears passionate witness to our last wildernesses, reminding us why they must be preserved. Dedicated conservationist and acclaimed novelist Barbara Kingsolver teams with National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt to capture the essence of America?s endangered virgin lands. In her moving introduction and int he essays opening each chapter, Kingsolver deftly explores the ways of the wilderness, the threats against it, and what it needs to survive. Griffiths Belt?s accompanying hand-tinted infrared photographs breathtakingly evoke the spirit and beauty of these diverse bioregions.

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In unforgettable words and images, best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and award-winning photographer Annie Griffiths Belt celebrate the last corners of America where wilderness still reigns. 'Last Stand' takes readers from the tallgrass prairies of Kansas to the Arctic tundra of Alaska to the deserts of the southwest and bears passionate witness to our last wildernesses, reminding us why they must be preserved.

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Verlag
National Geographic
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0792269098
ISBN 13 
9780792269090
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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