Nature's Last Strongholds

by Robert Burton

Book Overview

As the pace of human development accelerated and centers of civilization developed in the most fertile and cultivable areas of the world, wildernesses were regarded as unproductive and wasteful: forests had to be cleared, grasslands plowed, and wetlands drained to accommodate the world's growing populations. Even after the cataclysmic changes of the Industrial Revolution, there still appeared to be plenty of wilderness left to be plundered for its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195208625
• ISBN13: 9780195208627
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.5" x 12.2"