Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait
Demuth, Bathsheba2020
Books, Manuscripts
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, this book is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
Main title:
Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait / Bathsheba Demuth.
Author:
Demuth, Bathsheba, author
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2020.
Collation:
448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780393358322 (pbk)
Dewey class:
508.3113
LC class:
GE160
Local class:
508.3113
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2761971