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Floating coast an environmental history of the Bering Strait

"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem t...

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Main Author: Demuth, Bathsheba (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Arctic regions > History.
Natural resources > Arctic regions > History.
Capitalism > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions > History.
Communism > Environmental aspects > Arctic regions > History.
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions > History.
Bering Strait > Environmental conditions > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The migration north
  • Whale country
  • Whale fall
  • The floating coast
  • The waking ice
  • The moving tundra
  • The climate of change
  • The unquiet earth
  • Elements of redemption
  • Caloric values
  • Species of enlightenment
  • Epilogue: The transformation of matter.

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