Displaying 1 of 1 2001 Format: Book Author: Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- Title: The eternal frontier : an ecological history of North America and its peoples / Tim Flannery. Edition: 1st American ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2001. Description: 404 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Summary: A paleontologist offers an ecological tour of North America, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago to the present. Subjects: Natural history -- North America. Ecology -- North America. Notes: Originally published by Text Publishing, Melbourne Australia in 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index. Contents: Map -- Introduction -- Act 1 : In which America is created and undone -- Ground zero ; Reordering of North America ; Hellbenders and hoofed creatures -- Act 2 : In which America becomes a tropical paradise -- First contacts ; Bridge over Greenland -- Act 3 : In which America becomes a land of immigrants -- Fatal configuration ; Grande Coupure ; Golden age ; Gateway to the present ; United lands of America ; Laurentide ; Visit to a new world -- Act 4 : In which America is discovered -- New world ; Black hole theory of extinction ; Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon ; New American fauna ; Making of the buffalo ; Rise of cultures ; Taming of teosinte -- Act 5 : In which America conquers the world : Alternative Americas -- English colonies all ; Conceived in liberty ; Fatal impact ; America under the gun ; Making of a giant ; What's home on the range? ; Reinventing America. LCCN: 2001018841 ISBN: 0871137895 9780871137890 Other Number: 45804680 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 93891 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 508.7 Flannery Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
