Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Bathsheba Demuth

416 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 yea...

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