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Vanishing America

Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation

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$44.00 • £38.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674971561

Publication Date: 11/14/2016

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264 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

26 halftones

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  • Introduction: A Nation’s Park, Containing Man and Beast
  • 1. Surviving Progress
  • 2. Preserving the Frontier
  • 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent
  • 4. The Last of Her Tribe
  • 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much
  • Epilogue: De-Extinction
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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