Nature's saviours : celebrity conservationists in the television age / / Graham Huggan
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| Autore: |
Huggan Graham <1958->
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| Titolo: |
Nature's saviours : celebrity conservationists in the television age / / Graham Huggan
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge/Earthscan, 2013 |
| London ; ; New York, NY : , : Earthscan from Rutledge : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2013 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 618.9289/14 |
| Soggetto topico: | Conservationists |
| Naturalists | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Nature's Saviours; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Foreword; Introduction; 1 A is for Attenborough; 2 Lives aquatic: underwater with the Cousteaus; 3 Requiem for Dian: myth, memory, mediation; 4 Suzuki: the scientist as moralist; 5 Crocodile tears: the life and death of Steve Irwin; Afterword; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <P>Celebrity conservationists have played a major role in drawing attention to an increasingly threatened natural world. Through television they have brought the crises of this world directly into the public gaze. This book is one of the first to address this contribution, focusing on key figures such as David Attenborough and Steve Irwin. </P> |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Nature's saviors |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nature's saviours |
| ISBN: | 0-203-12318-2 |
| 1-136-33759-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818239403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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