Cultures of Habitat

Download or read book Cultures of Habitat written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four essays explore the deep and complex connections between nature and people. Concentrating on cultures of habitat--human communities with long histories of interacting with one particular kind of terrain and its wildlife--the author considers such topics as the correlation between upheavals in human communities and the incidence of endangered species, the perils of monoculture in the Tequila fields of Mexico, and the nature of aggression and the struggle for limited resources. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR