| Main Title |
The eternal frontier : an ecological history of North America and its peoples / |
| Author |
Flannery, Tim F.
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| Publisher |
Grove Press, |
| Year Published |
2002 |
| OCLC Number |
49945130 |
| ISBN |
0802138888; 9780802138880 |
| Subjects |
Natural history--North America ;
Ecology--North America ;
èOkologie ;
Nordamerika ;
Natur--(DE-588c)4041358-5 ;
èOkologie--(DE-588c)4043207-5 ;
Nordamerika--(DE-588c)4042483-2
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| Holdings |
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Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EKBM |
QH102.F63 2002 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
04/13/2007 |
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| Edition |
1st Grove Press pbk. ed. |
| Collation |
404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Originally published by Text Publishing, Melbourne Australia in 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
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. 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. |
