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The eternal frontier, an ecological history of North America and its peoples, Tim Flannery

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The eternal frontier, an ecological history of North America and its peoples, Tim Flannery

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The eternal frontier

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bibliography

Oclc number

45804680

Responsibility statement

Tim Flannery

Sub title

an ecological history of North America and its peoples

Summary

A paleontologist offers an ecological tour of North America, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago to the present

Table Of Contents

Map -- Introduction -- Act 1 : In which America is created and undone -- Ground zero ; Reordering of North America ; Hellbenders and hoofed creatures -- Act 2 : In which America becomes a tropical paradise -- First contacts ; Bridge over Greenland -- Act 3 : In which America becomes a land of immigrants -- Fatal configuration ; Grande Coupure ; Golden age ; Gateway to the present ; United lands of America ; Laurentide ; Visit to a new world -- Act 4 : In which America is discovered -- New world ; Black hole theory of extinction ; Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon ; New American fauna ; Making of the buffalo ; Rise of cultures ; Taming of teosinte -- Act 5 : In which America conquers the world : Alternative Americas -- English colonies all ; Conceived in liberty ; Fatal impact ; America under the gun ; Making of a giant ; What's home on the range? ; Reinventing America

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