Tom Wessels

The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite

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This fascinating new book focuses on a rare and dramatic landscape: the granite summit balds of North American mountains. Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these high, wild places. He explores the unique and fragile ecosystem that is common to exposed granite expanses from Acadia to Yosemitehow it evolved slowly over millennia, and how it is threatened today by foot traffic and overuse. Wessels' dramatic photographs and Brian Cohen's beautifully detailed illustrations bring the denizens of the granite bald to life. The mountains they celebrate include: Ac… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-88150-429-3
EAN: 9780881504293
Produktnummer: 9214687
Verlag: Countryman Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B23.4 cm x D2.0 cm 703 g
Gewicht: 703

Über den Autor

Tom Wessels is an ecologist and the author of Reading the Forested Landscape and Forest Forensics. He is the director of the Environmental Biology program at Antioch New England Graduate School.