Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond

by Elizabeth Callaway

Book Overview

In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more broadly. In Eden's Endemics, Elizabeth Callaway looks to cultural objects--novels, memoirs, databases, visualizations, and poetry-- that depict many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813944570
• ISBN13: 9780813944579
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"