Více než 4 miliony titulů v angličtině i dalších jazycích! Objevte svůj nový příběh ještě dnes!

War Against the Beavers

Name: War Against the Beavers
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9780816642182
Price: 307 CZK
Availability: InStock

Learning to Be Wild in the North Woods

Autor: Verena Andermatt Conley

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: University of Minnesota Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

Odesíláme za 13-18 dnů

307 Kč

A lifelong city dweller, Verena Andermatt Conley had long harbored romantic ideals about the natural...

Informace o knize

Autor

Verena Andermatt Conley

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2005

Stránek

192

EAN

9780816642182

ISBN

0816642184

Enbook ID

04729554

Vydavatel

University of Minnesota Press

Hmotnost

218

Rozměry

140 x 220 x 10

Kompletní popis

A lifelong city dweller, Verena Andermatt Conley had long harbored romantic ideals about the natural world and dreamed of a wilderness retreat for herself and her husband, Tom. When a sizable tract of land along the Vermillion River on the edge of Minnesota's Boundary Waters - complete with two primitive log cabins - became available, they jumped at the chance to own a piece of paradise. The War against the Beavers is a wry and funny account of two people's ten-year apprenticeship in backwoods living, from their arrival as literal babes in the woods to their education in the ways of nature as they face plagues of insects, fungus, storms, and droughts, and embark on a lengthy campaign to eradicate a colony of beavers that threatens the peace and beauty of their forest refuge. It is only the coming of a mechanized and much more menacing threat - bulldozers and other heavy machinery clear-cutting the woods - that restores perspective to the obsessed cabin dwellers.