LEADER 04498nam 2200661 450 001 9910811620703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5503-0 010 $a0-8014-5504-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801455049 035 $a(CKB)3710000000271216 035 $a(OCoLC)894510974 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10961885 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001369606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12503807 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001369606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11287968 035 $a(PQKB)11556029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138667 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550062 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58279 035 $a(DE-B1597)496611 035 $a(OCoLC)1041993047 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801455049 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138667 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10961885 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681691 035 $a(OCoLC)922998758 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000271216 100 $a20140514h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe edge of extinction $etravels with enduring people in vanishing lands /$fJules Pretty 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cComstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50409-1 311 $a0-8014-5330-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSea-coast: Ngai Tahu, Aotearoa (New Zealand) -- Mountain: Huangshan, China -- Desert: Murujuga (Burrup), Australia -- Steppe: Tyva, Russia -- Snow: Karelia, Finland -- Swamp: Okavango, Botswana -- Marsh-farm: East Anglia, England -- Coast: Antrim Glens, Northern Ireland -- Snow: Nitassinan, Labrador, Canada -- Farm-city: Amish counry, Ohio, USA -- Swamp: Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, USA -- Desert: Timbisha (Death Valley), California, USA -- Coda: dreaming of the day after. 330 $aIn The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga's snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent. 606 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aHuman beings$xEffect of environment on$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aHuman beings$xEffect of environment on$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a304.2 700 $aPretty$b Jules N.$089208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811620703321 996 $aThe edge of extinction$93931875 997 $aUNINA