Nature's ghosts : confronting extinction from the age of Jefferson to the age of ecology / Mark V. Barrow, Jr
Imprint
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2009
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CCQ - Lusail Female Library
QL84.2
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CCQ - Lusail Male Library
QL84.2
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Description
xi, 497 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Bones of contention: the American incognitum and the discovery of extinction -- Paradise lost: unraveling the mysteries of insular species -- Sounding the alarm about continent-wide extinction -- Nationalism, nostalgia, and the campaign to save