By Michael Welland
ISBN-10: 1780233604
ISBN-13: 9781780233604
For the outsider, tales of the wasteland are concerning the unique and the adverse – approximately adventures into unknown territory. Few folks think of the views of these who dwell in and navigate the desolate tract every day. This ebook makes an attempt to bridge the gaps, either clinical and cultural, among belief and fact, whereas celebrating the fascination, pleasure and diversity of wilderness lands and their inhabitants.
Though typically noticeable as arid and infertile, deserts were the birthplaces of serious evolutionary diversifications, civilizations, ideologies and agricultural and social development. Deserts play energetic roles within the persisted evolution of our weather and societies, not easy that we expect heavily approximately those barren lands and their destiny. From hot seas of sand to glacial polar expanses, wilderness: Lands of misplaced Borders relates the stories, truths, folklore and proof of the desolate tract in an research that's straight away informative and surprising.
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