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Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems Wildlife And Conservation

Door Robert Jr Fleming e.a.

Categorie	Azië
Boeknummer	#368901-AE26
Titel	Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems Wildlife And Conservation
Auteur	Fleming, Robert Jr & Dorje Tsering & Liu Wulin
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Washington, DC : National Geographic Books
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0393061175
ISBN13	9780393061178
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, illustrated with numerous (full page) photographs in colour, oblong (circa 36x26cm).
Samenvatting	Remarkable photographs celebrate the wild places and the exquisite animals of the country called “the roof of the world.” Here is the most comprehensive photography to date of a little-known and seldom-visited land whose area equals western Europe. The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from tropical jungles to arctic-like tundra, from trees twenty feet in diameter to vast herds and solitary specimens of some of the least-known animals on the planet. Certain photographs, such as those of a newborn Tibetan antelope or the elusive red ghoral, are among the first ever taken of these subjects. The book brings American, Tibetan, and Chinese scholarship to bear on the natural history of Tibet, and it also describes an extraor... (Lees verder)dinary conservation accomplishment that has gone virtually unnoticed by the outside world. Where else has 40 percent of the land been set aside in nature preserves in twenty years? As a result of this effort, the animals and landscapes shown here will be saved for future generations.
Pagina's	119
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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