Name: Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes (Painted Turtle) (en Inglés)
Price: 33820.00 CLP
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Author: Shumaker, Heather ; Gibson, James ; Drew Smith Photography LLC
ISBN: 9780814342046

portada Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes (Painted Turtle) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Heather Shumaker

Fotografías de

James Gibson

Drew Smith Photography LLC

Editorial

Painted Turtle Book

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9780814342046

Categorías

Memorias bibliográficas
Zonas áridas, desiertos
Conservación del medioambiente
Historia de la tierra

Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes (Painted Turtle) (en Inglés)

Heather Shumaker (Autor) · James Gibson (Fotografías de) · Drew Smith Photography LLC (Fotografías de) · Painted Turtle Book · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes (Painted Turtle) (en Inglés)"

Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about it. Author and narrator Heather Shumaker shares the remarkable untold stories behind protecting land and creating new nature preserves. Written in a compelling narrative style, the book is intended in part as a case study for landscape-level conservation and documents the challenges of integrating economic livelihoods into conservation and what it really means to preserve land over time. This is the story of a small band of determined townspeople and how far they went to save beloved land and endangered species from the grip of a powerful corporation. Saving Arcadia is a narrative with roots as deep as the trees the community is trying to save, something set in motion before the author was even born. And yet, Shumaker gives a human face to the changing nature of land conservation in the twenty-first century. Throughout this chronicle we meet people like Elaine, a nineteen-year-old farm wife; Dori, a lakeside innkeeper; and Glen, the director of the local land trust. Together with hundreds of others they cross cultural barriers and learn to help one another in an effort to win back the six-thousand-acre landscape taken over by Consumers Power that is now facing grave devastation. The result is a triumph of community that includes working farms, local businesses, summer visitors, year-round residents, and a network of land stewards. A work of creative nonfiction, Saving Arcadia is the adventurous tale of everyday people fighting to reclaim the land that has been in their family for generations. It explores ideas about nature and community, and anyone from scholars of ecology and conservation biology to readers of naturalist writing can gain from Arcadia's story.