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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Landsdi Jules Pretty
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Connected short essays from various interesting parts of the world. A pity there couldn't have been more and better images, and I wished many times for some more background than we got. But those are quibbles - it was still a very fascinating read. ( ) Life in the world, and of it The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands by Jules Pretty (Cornell University Press, $27.95). Jules Pretty’s thesis isn’t new; it’s his approach that is original. Many writers, environmentalists and foodies have been suggesting for close to a generation that we highly-evolved types have gotten too far away from the natural world and so have lost perspective and a certain spiritual connection to the planet. What Pretty has done differently in this travelogue-slash-memoir-slash-polemic is to go out among groups of people who are still living in fairly traditional ways and bear witness to a life that is vanishing as rapidly as our climate changes. Pretty visits 12 locales: coastal ecosystems among Maori in New Zealand and in Ireland, the deserts of Australia and California’s Death Valley, the mountains of China, snowy landscapes in Finland and Labrador, Russia’s steppes, a marshland farm in East Anglia and an Amish farm in Ohio, swamps in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin and in Botswana. For each place, he provides enough background—both ecological and historical—to get a grasp of the context for the people he meets living there, but it seems as if he’s covering so much ground that he doesn’t have enough time to fully get to know the characters he introduces. It’s a fascinating book, but one that is most successful as a travelogue. In order to fully address the possibilities for human life on the planet, Pretty might want to undertake a sequel. Reviewed on Lit/Rant: www.litrant.tumblr.com nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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