Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds
- ISBN-10
- 0307341976
- ISBN-13
- 9780307341976
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 343
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11-12
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Author
- Jim Sterba
Description
A painstakingly researched and often whimsical study on the relationship between humans and nature traces how and why today's people are living more in harmony with the Earth, sharing controversial observations about how overzealous conservation efforts have had unintended consequences. 20,000 first printing.
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- 2012-11-13
- 368 pages
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- Crown
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