George Perkins Marsh : Prophet of Conservation 9780295989853, 9780295983158

George Perkins Marsh (1801�1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and

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George Perkins Marsh : Prophet of Conservation
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Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th ce

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In 1901, Sarah Orne Jewett declared her “best story” to be A Marsh Island, a novel about queer kinship. Written a few ye

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Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. Ethnoarchaeological fieldw

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The National Book Award winner from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, A. Scott Berg. The talents he nurtured as

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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Sa

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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Sa

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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Sa

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventfu

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The original French edition of this book was received with so much interest by specialists in conservation and historian

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