| Description |
404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Originally published: London: Heinemann, 2001. |
| Contents |
Map -- Introduction -- Act 1 : In which America is created and undone -- Ground zero ; Reordering of North America ; Of Hellbenders and hoofed creatures -- Act 2 : In which America becomes a tropical paradise -- First contacts ; Bridge over Greenland -- Act 3 : In which America becomes a land of immigrants -- A fatal configuration ; La Grande Coupure ; A Golden age ; Gateway to the present ; United lands of America ; Laurentide ; Visit to a new world -- Act 4 : In which America is discovered -- A new world ; The black hole theory of extinction ; Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon ; The new American fauna ; The making of the buffalo ; The rise of cultures ; The taming of teosinte -- Act 5 : In which America conquers the world : Alternative Americas -- English colonies all ; Conceived in liberty ; The Fatal impact ; America under the gun ; The making of a giant ; What's home on the range? ; Reinventing America. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-404) and index. |
| Summary |
A paleontologist offers an ecological tour of North America, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago to the present. |
| Subject |
Natural history -- North America.
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Ecology -- North America.
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Human ecology -- North America.
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
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| ISBN |
9780141026930 (pbk.) |
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0141026936 (pbk.) |
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