Author: Thomas BarbourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
That Vanishing Eden
Author: Thomas BarbourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
That Vanishing Eden. A Naturalist's Florida ... (Reprinted.) Illustrated
Author: Thomas BarbourVanishing Eden
Author: Edward AtkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780517125595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Vanishing Eden
Author: Martin BirnbaumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Vanishing Eden
Author: Edward G. Atkins (ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vanishing Eden
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Elena Vanishing
Author: Elena DunklePublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145213068X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder.
Vanishing Wildlife of North America
Author: Thomas B. Allen, Gilbert M. GrosvenorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Vanishing Paradise
Author: Elizabeth C. ChildsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520271734
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.
Vanishing Eden
Author: Edward G. AtkinsUnderwater Eden
Author: Gregory S. StonePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922677
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
“It was the first time I’d seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago.” That’s conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Worldwide, the oceans are suffering. Corals are dying off at an alarming rate, victims of ocean warming and acidification—and their loss threatens more than 25 percent of all fish species, who depend on the food and shelter found in coral habitats. Yet in the waters off the Phoenix Islands, the corals were healthy, the fish populations pristine and abundant—and Stone and his companion on the dive, coral expert David Obura, determined that they were going to try their best to keep it that way. Underwater Eden tells the story of how they succeeded, against great odds, in making that dream come true, with the establishment in 2008 of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). It’s a story of cutting-edge science, fierce commitment, and innovative partnerships rooted in a determination to find common ground among conservationists, business interests, and governments—all backed up by hard-headed economic analysis. Creating the world’s largest (and deepest) UNESCO World Heritage Site was by no means easy or straightforward. Underwater Eden takes us from the initial dive, through four major scientific expeditions and planning meetings over the course of a decade, to high-level negotiations with the government of Kiribati—a small island nation dependent on the revenue from the surrounding fisheries. How could the people of Kiribati, and the fishing industry its waters supported, be compensated for the substantial income they would be giving up in favor of posterity? And how could this previously little-known wilderness be transformed into one of the highest-profile international conservation priorities? Step by step, conservation and its priorities won over the doubters, and Underwater Eden is the stunningly illustrated record of what was saved. Each chapter reveals—with eye-popping photographs—a different aspect of the science and conservation of the underwater and terrestrial life found in and around the Phoenix Islands’ coral reefs. Written by scientists, politicians, and journalists who have been involved in the conservation efforts since the beginning, the chapters brim with excitement, wonder, and confidence—tempered with realism and full of lessons that the success of PIPA offers for other ambitious conservation projects worldwide. Simultaneously a valentine to the diversity, resilience, and importance of the oceans and a riveting account of how conservation really can succeed against the toughest obstacles, Underwater Eden is sure to enchant any ocean lover, whether ecotourist or armchair scuba diver.