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Author : Eric C. Rolls
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 1984
A Million Wild Acres written by Eric C. Rolls and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
A Million Wild Acresis the story of men and their passion for land; of occupation and settlement; of destruction and growth. By following the tracks of those pioneers who crossed the Blue Mountains into northern New South Wales, Eric Rolls - poet, farmer, and self-taught naturalist - has rewritten the history of European settlement in Australia. He evokes the ruthlessness and determination of the first settlers who worked the land - a land they knew little about.
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Author : Eric Charles Rolls
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
A Million Wild Acres written by Eric Charles Rolls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Pilliga District (N.S.W.) categories.
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Author : Eric C. Rolls
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
A Million Wild Acres written by Eric C. Rolls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Forest and forestry categories.
European settlement and environment of the Pilliga Forest, NSW; includes relations with Aborigines, Jimmy Governor, effects of Aboriginal burning; Gamilaroi language, culture and artefacts; early photograph of Brewarrina fish traps; bird and plant species lists.
Australia
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Author : Eric Charles Rolls
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Australia written by Eric Charles Rolls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Eric Rolls, author of the much loved They All Ran Wildand A Million Wild Acres,has explained Australia as no one else could. An exciting story of natural events and scientific discovery, Australia- A Biographytakes us from the infinity of creation to the detail of Australia's land, plants and animals.
A Million Acres
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Author : Keir Graff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-15
A Million Acres written by Keir Graff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Nature categories.
A stunning hardcover gift book featuring twenty powerful pieces of writing about Montana's land and open spaces by the state's finest contemporary writers, including Rick Bass, Maile Meloy, and Carrie Le Seur. Features twenty-eight spectacular color landscape photographs. Sponsored by The Montana Land Reliance.
This Land
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Author : Christopher Ketcham
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-07-16
This Land written by Christopher Ketcham and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with History categories.
“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.
The Not So Wild Wild West
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Author : Terry Lee Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
The Not So Wild Wild West written by Terry Lee Anderson and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Cooperation, not conflict, is emphasized in a study that casts America's frontier history as a place in which local people helped develop the legal framework that tamed the West.
Citizens
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Author : Eric C. Rolls
language : en
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Release Date : 1996
Citizens written by Eric C. Rolls and has been published by University of Queensland Press(Australia) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
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Bubble In The Sun
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Author : Christopher Knowlton
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Bubble In The Sun written by Christopher Knowlton and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with History categories.
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.
The Green Roosevelt
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Author : Theodore Roosevelt
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2010
The Green Roosevelt written by Theodore Roosevelt and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
America's first Green president, Theodore Roosevelt's credentials as both naturalist and writer are as impressive as they are deep, emblematic of the twenty-sixth President's unprecedented breadth and energy. While Roosevelt authored policies that grew the public domain by a remarkable 230 million acres, he likewise penned over thirty-five books and an estimated 150,000 letters, many concerning the natural world. In between drafts both personal and political, scientific and sentimental, he quadrupled existing forest reserves while creating the nation's first fifty wildlife refuges and eighteen national monuments, among them the Grand Canyon, and five national parks, headlined by Yosemite. And Roosevelt was far more than a policy wonk and political do-gooder. John Muir, by his own admission, "fairly fell in love with him." John Burroughs wrote that Roosevelt "probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who preceded him." And the Smithsonian's Edmund Heller dubbed him the "foremost field naturalist of our time." In addition to creating more than 150,000 new acres of national forest, Roosevelt made a new vogue of sportsmanship, famously refusing to shoot a lame bear in Mississippi and inspiring, thereof, an American icon and ecological fetish all at once: the Teddy Bear. Indeed, Roosevelt's Green undertakings produced a truly living legacy-one whose everlasting qualities he took robust pleasure in. Naturalist William Finley once suggested to TR that the President's environmental prescience would serve as "one of the greatest memorials to [his] farsightedness," to which Roosevelt replied, "Bully. I had rather have it than a hundred stone monuments." In fact, Roosevelt would have both-a lasting reputation for environmental protection and timeless stone monuments at Mount Rushmore and elsewhere built to honor his dramatic public policy initiatives. This book will be a critical resource for all those in American history (particularly presidential history), environmental history, environmental studies, nature studies, place studies, Agrarian studies, conservation studies, fish and wildlife biology/management, and ecology.