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Author Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-

Title The eternal frontier : an ecological history of North America and its peoples / Tim Flannery.

Publication Info. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  508.7 FLANNERY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  508.7 F614    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  508.7 F    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  508.7 FLANNERY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  508.7 FLANNERY    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  508.7 FLA    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  508.7 FLANNERY    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 404 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Note First published by Text Publishing, Melbourne Australia in 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-395) and index.
Contents Map -- Introduction -- Act 1 : In which America is created and undone -- Ground zero ; Reordering of North America ; 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 -- Fatal configuration ; Grande Coupure ; Golden age ; Gateway to the present ; United lands of America ; Laurentide ; Visit to a new world -- Act 4 : In which America is discovered -- New world ; Black hole theory of extinction ; Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon ; New American fauna ; Making of the buffalo ; Rise of cultures ; Taming of teosinte -- Act 5 : In which America conquers the world : Alternative Americas -- English colonies all ; Conceived in liberty ; Fatal impact ; America under the gun ; Making of a giant ; What's home on the range? ; Reinventing America.
Subject Natural history -- North America.
Ecology -- North America.
ISBN 0871137895
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