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Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature
Paradise for Sale A Parable of Nature
Author: Carl N. McDaniel, John M. Gowdy
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability. But in 1900 the discovery of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520222298
ISBN-10: 0520222296
Publication Date: 1/28/2000
Pages: 225
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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