Floating Coast - An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Across Russia's easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power.Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.* Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.

Product details

• Authors: Bathsheba Demuth, Bathsheba (Brown University) Demuth
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2020
• EAN: 9780393358322
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35832-2
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; NATURE / General, Russia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Polar Regions, Environmental Economics, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Polar regions, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Historical Geography, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era