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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Paperback
Business GeneralArctic HistoryGeneral World History
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780393358322
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Aug 25 2020
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans--the Iñupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia--before American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved?
Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.
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