Reading the Entrails: An Alberta EcoHistory

Conrad, Norman C.

ISBN 10: 1552380122 / ISBN 13: 9781552380123

Verlag: UC Press, Calgary, 1999

Beschreibung

Flat SIGNED by the author on the title page. Clean laminate wraps, crisp, solid interior. Gently read. A provocative book meant to compel discussion about the past and future of Alberta's natural history.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001529

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Reading the Entrails: An Alberta EcoHistory
• Verlag: UC Press, Calgary
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1552380122
• ISBN-13: 9781552380123
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: First Thus
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Canadiana

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Before the fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the guts of sacrificial animals on the temple floor, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Alberta's past sacrifices (reading the entrails), the author believes we might dimly see an apparition of Alberta's future. Reading the Entrails: An Alberta Ecohistory vividly portrays the history of land and life in Alberta from the Ice Ages to the present. Making no apologies for his criticism of government, regulators, and large corporations, Conrad aims to strike a discussion at all levels by presenting his arguments intensely. For those interested in natural history, the environment, and the future of Alberta's ecological resources, this provocative book is essential reading.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Norman C. Conrad's involvement in advocacy, law, primary industry, and wilderness have provided him, a third-generation Albertan, with a strong sense of the winners and losers in Alberta's progress and development.