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Islands Beyond the Horizon: The Life of Twenty of the World'S Most Remote Places download free [PDF and Ebook] by Roger Lovegrove

Islands Beyond the Horizon: The Life of Twenty of the World'S Most Remote Places download free [PDF and Ebook] by Roger Lovegrove year 2012
  • Book name: Islands Beyond the Horizon: The Life of Twenty of the World'S Most Remote Places
  • Author: Roger Lovegrove
  • Release date: 2012/5/16
  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Technology and Engineering
  • ISBN: 9780199606498
  • Rating: 7.74 of 10
  • Votes: 371
  • Review by: Soren Eckert
  • Review rating: 8.54 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/24
  • Total pages: 256
  • Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
  • Description or summary of the book: Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world, and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept, wave-lashed Mykines and St Kilda. The range is diverse and spectacular; and whether distant, offshore, inhabited, uninhabited, tropical or polar, each is a unique self-contained habitat with a delicately-balanced ecosystem, and each has its own mystique and ineffable magnetism. Central to each story is also the impact of human settlers. Lovegrove recounts unforgettable tales of human endeavour, tragedy, and heroism. But consistently, he has to report on the mankind's negative impact on wildlife and habitats - from the exploitation of birds for food to the elimination of native vegetation for crops.By looking not only at the biodiversity of each island, but also the uneasy relationship between its wildlife and the involvement of man, he provides a richly detailed account of each island, its diverse wildlife, its human history, and the efforts of conservationists to retain these irreplaceable sites.
  • Estimated reading time (average reader): 11H18M23S
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Wildlife: General Interest, Popular Science, Ecological Science, The Biosphere, Environment, Biodiversity, Natural History Books, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology
  • Available formats: PDF, EPUB, HTMLZ, RTF, OEB, TXT, DOC, WORD. Compressed in TGZ, CBR, RAR, TAR.BZ, ZIP, CAB, TBZ
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 19.41 USD
  • Dimensions: 162x225x27mm
  • Weight: 442g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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