The Resource On extinction : how we became estranged from nature, Melanie Challenger
On extinction : how we became estranged from nature, Melanie Challenger
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- Summary
- How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural, biological and industrial - to reconnect with nature? When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. For the first time, humans had to contemplate the idea of extinction. From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, On Extinction is a passionate exploration of these disappearances and why they should concern us. Challenger asks questions about how we've become destructive to our environment, our emotional responses to extinctions, and how these responses might shape our future relationship with nature. She travels to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia, the melting icescape of Antarctica and the Inuit camps of the Arctic, where she traces the links between human activities and environmental collapse. On Extinction is an account of Challenger's journey that brings together ideas about cultural, biological and industrial extinction in a beautiful, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 332 p.
- Note
- Originally published: London : Granta, 2011
- Contents
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- Beginnings : Natural History Museum, London
- The first peregrination : West Penwith, Cornwall. Wild flowers ; Tin ; Ghosts
- The second peregrination : South Georgia, Antarctica, and the Falkland Islands. Whales ; Ice ; Savages
- The third peregrination : North Yorkshire, Manhattan Island, and Baffin Island. Bones ; Tundra
- Endings : Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
- Isbn
- 9781619020184
- Label
- On extinction : how we became estranged from nature
- Title
- On extinction
- Title remainder
- how we became estranged from nature
- Statement of responsibility
- Melanie Challenger
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural, biological and industrial - to reconnect with nature? When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer existed. For the first time, humans had to contemplate the idea of extinction. From our destruction of the natural world to the human cultures that are rapidly dying out, On Extinction is a passionate exploration of these disappearances and why they should concern us. Challenger asks questions about how we've become destructive to our environment, our emotional responses to extinctions, and how these responses might shape our future relationship with nature. She travels to the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia, the melting icescape of Antarctica and the Inuit camps of the Arctic, where she traces the links between human activities and environmental collapse. On Extinction is an account of Challenger's journey that brings together ideas about cultural, biological and industrial extinction in a beautiful, thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book
- Summary
- Recounts the author's travels investigating the cultural shifts associated with the dramatic rise in extinctions, in a cautionary report that looks at how culture, species, and industries have been affected by the destruction of nature
- Award
- Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, 2013.
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- 10142067
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
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- Challenger, Melanie
- Dewey number
- 576.8/4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- GE195.7
- LC item number
- .C43 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Extinction (Biology)
- Nature
- Environmental responsibility
- Environmental degradation
- Challenger, Melanie
- Polar regions
- Target audience
- adult
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- how we became estranged from nature
- Label
- On extinction : how we became estranged from nature, Melanie Challenger
- Note
- Originally published: London : Granta, 2011
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326)
- Contents
- Beginnings : Natural History Museum, London -- The first peregrination : West Penwith, Cornwall. Wild flowers ; Tin ; Ghosts -- The second peregrination : South Georgia, Antarctica, and the Falkland Islands. Whales ; Ice ; Savages -- The third peregrination : North Yorkshire, Manhattan Island, and Baffin Island. Bones ; Tundra -- Endings : Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
- Control code
- ocn793580547
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 332 p.
- Isbn
- 9781619020184
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)793580547
- Label
- On extinction : how we became estranged from nature, Melanie Challenger
- Note
- Originally published: London : Granta, 2011
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326)
- Contents
- Beginnings : Natural History Museum, London -- The first peregrination : West Penwith, Cornwall. Wild flowers ; Tin ; Ghosts -- The second peregrination : South Georgia, Antarctica, and the Falkland Islands. Whales ; Ice ; Savages -- The third peregrination : North Yorkshire, Manhattan Island, and Baffin Island. Bones ; Tundra -- Endings : Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
- Control code
- ocn793580547
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 332 p.
- Isbn
- 9781619020184
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)793580547
Subject
- Challenger, Melanie -- Travel
- trueEnvironmental degradation
- trueEnvironmental responsibility
- trueExtinction (Biology)
- trueNature -- Effect of human beings on
- trueNature Writing -- General
- truePolar regions -- Description and travel
- trueRare and endangered animals
- trueWomen and nature
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