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2011., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 909.4 M281 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult--the "Columbian Exchange"--underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City-- where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination"--
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1952., Juvenile, University of Toronto Press Call No: 971.3 M1425b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2008., Price-Patterson Call No: QWF 631.22 A132h Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Custom House Call No: NEW Bio R312p Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As a boy, James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather to work the land the old way. Their family farm in England's Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed by livestock, and of hedgerows teeming with wildlife. The men and women had vanished from the fields;; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies have emptied of birds and their windblown song. Hailed as a "brilliant, beautiful book" by the Sunday Times, Pastoral Song(published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance, one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse and of how the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community, and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope--of how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. This is a book about what it means to love and have pride in a place and about how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral -- not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.
