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The eternal frontier: an ecological history of North America and its peoples
The eternal frontier: an ecological history of North America and its peoples
Author
Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
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QH 102 .F63 2001
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From the Book - 1st American ed.
Act I, in which America is created and undone
Ground zero
The reordering of North America
Of hellbenders and hoofed creatures
Act 2, in which America becomes a tropical paradise
First contacts
The bridge over Greenland
Act 3, in which America becomes a land of immigrants
A fatal configuration
La Grande Coupure
A golden age
Gateway to the present
United lands of America
Laurentide
Visit to a new world
Act 4, in which America is discovered
A new world
The black hole theory of extinction
Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon
The new American fauna
The making of the buffalo
The rise of cultures
The taming of Teosinte
Act 5, in which America conquers the world
Alternative Americas
English colonies all
Conceived in liberty
The fatal impact
America under the gun
The making of a giant
What's home on the range?
Reinventing America.
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Ecology
Ecology -- North America
Natural history
Natural history -- North America
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9780871137890
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