The Man Who Would Dam the Amazon & Other Accounts from Afield

by Mitchell, John G.

• ISBN13: 9780803231474
• ISBN10: 0803231474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

A collection of essays addresses the systematic defilement of the environment and the misuse of natural resources, focusing on strip mining, the oil industry, and the vanishing Arctic caribou herd

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notice: Color Them Gray	p. xi
The Man Who Would Dam the Amazon	p. i
Traps	p. 41
The Mountains, the Miners, and Mister Caudill	p. 93
Brushpoppin' the Slickrock	p. 134
Alaska 1977: Where Have All the Tuttu Gone?	p. 168
Alaska 1987: Legends from an Eskimo Garden	p. 200
A Man Called Bird	p. 223
Golden Isle	p. 266
Refuges	p. 280
The Needle of the Eye	p. 292
Back to the Beaverkill	p. 336
Notes on Cospii8	p. 345
Index	p. 357
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