The eternal frontier : an ecological history of North America and its peoples
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
Print Book, English, 2002
First Grove Press paperback edition View all formats and editions
Grove Press, New York, 2002
404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
9780802138880, 0802138888
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Introduction
Act 1 : In which America is created and undone. Ground zero ; The reordering of North America ; Of hellbenders and hoofed creatures
Act 2 : In which America becomes a tropical paradise. First contacts ; The bridge over Greenland
Act 3 : In which America becomes a land of immigrants. A fatal configuration ; La Grande Coupure ; A golden age ; Gateway to the present ; United lands of America ; Laurentide ; Visit to a new world
Act 4 : In which America is discovered. A new world ; The black hole theory of extinction ; Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon ; The new American fauna ; The making of the buffalo ; The rise of cultures ; The taming of teosinte
Act 5 : In which America conquers the world. Alternative Americas ; English colonies all ; Conceived in liberty ; The fatal impact ; America under the gun ; The making of a giant ; What's home on the range? ; Reinventing America
Originally published by Text Publishing, Melbourne Australia in 2001