The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands

by Jules Pretty

Book Overview

In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453305
• ISBN13: 9780801453304
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Comstock Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher