James Fargo Balliett

Mountains

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 155
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780765682284
• ISBN-10: 0765682281
• Artikelnr.: 30981579

Autorenporträt

James Balliett graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, studying environmental issues and writing. His senior thesis was about a winter he spent on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Two years later, he was awarded his masters of science degree in environmental studies from Antioch New England Graduate School. 　 His experiences include a project for the US Forest Service in southeast Alaska, work for the harbormaster in Chatham, Massachusetts, and as a natural resource officer in Barnstable, Massachusetts where he helped manage a piping plover colony. While living in Burlington, Vermont, Balliett was a reporter for the Burlington Free Press and worked at the Chamber of Commerce where he directed their government affairs office. While living in Colorado's front range, he served as an advocacy manager for Housing Colorado. He currently resides on Cape Cod and writes for the Cape Codder Newspaper, covering a range of community, environmental, and business news. His five environmental science books (mountains, forests, wetlands, freshwater, and oceans) make up a set on Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction to Mountains
Chapter 1 Mountains' Majesty
Chapter 2 Mountain Formation
Chapter 3 Mountain Composition
Part II Mountains of the World Case Studies
Chapter 4 Himalayan Range Southeast Asia
Chapter 5 Presidential Range New Hampshire
Chapter 6 Mount Kenya Kenya
Chapter 7 Pyrenees Spain and France
Chapter 8 Southern Alps New Zealand
Chapter 9 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Chapter 10 Ural Mountains Russia
Part III Mountains Conclusion
Chapter 11 People in the Mountains
Chapter 12 Protecting Mountains