Andrew Nikiforuk

Empire of the Beetle

How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

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Produktbeschreibung

Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 141mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9781553655107
• ISBN-10: 1553655109
• Artikelnr.: 33184668

Autorenporträt

Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include Pandemonium, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses. His bestselling book Tar Sands won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter One: The Alaska Storm
Chapter Two: The Beetle, the Bus, and the Carbon Castle
Chapter Three: The Lodgepole Tsunami
Chapter Four: The War against the Insect Enemy
Chapter Five: In the Wake of the Beetle
Chapter Six: The Ghost Forest
Chapter Seven: The Song of the Beetle
Chapter Eight: The Sheath-Winged Cosmos
Chapter Nine: The Two Dianas
Chapter Ten: The Parable of the Worm
Sources and Further Information
Acknowledgements
Index