Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

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ISBN(EAN) 9780393358322
Издатель WW Norton and Company
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Язык Английский
Формат Мягкая обложка
Страницы 448
Год издания 2020
Рейтинг 4.0
Вес (грамм) 345
Размер (мм) 211(д) х 140(ш) х 28(в)
 

Across Russia's easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power.

Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.

Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.
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