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The Earth as Modified by Human Action

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The Earth as Modified by Human Action

George Perkins Marsh

955 pages~19 hr 1 min read42 chapters$4.99
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Long before anyone spoke of ecology, George Perkins Marsh warned that humanity was remaking the planet, often for the worse. He traces how clearing forests, draining bogs, and taming rivers reshape climate and land. A visionary founding work of the conservation movement. Read the book that first taught the world it could wreck its own home.

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42 chapters

  1. 1THE EARTH AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION.
  2. 2PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION.
  4. 4BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME.
  5. 5TABLE OF CONTENTS
  6. 6CHAPTER I.
  7. 7THE EARTH AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION.
  8. 8CHAPTER 1.
  9. 9UNCERTAINTY OF OUR HISTORICAL CONCLUSIONS ON ANCIENT CLIMATES.
  10. 10STABILITY OF NATURE.
  11. 11FORMATION OF BOGS.
  12. 12NATURAL CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGE.
  13. 13IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL CONSERVATION, AND RESTORATION.
  14. 14PHYSICAL RESTORATION.
  15. 15CHAPTER II.
  16. 16MODERN GEOGRAPHY EMBRACES ORGANIC LIFE.
  17. 17ORIGIN OF DOMESTIC PLANTS.
  18. 18OBJECTS OF MODERN COMMERCE.

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