| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index. |
| Contents |
FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; 1. Beginnings: The Lure of Wild Country; 2. School, the Woods, and War; 3. Red Arrows Never Glance; 4. Live Coward or Dead Hero?; 5. Elizabeth's Story; 6. Reunion; 7. Transition; 8. Deer; 9. Arcata; 10. Conservation by Slaughter; 11. Return to the United States; 12. Influences and Efforts; 13. Too Many, Too Much; 14. Uniting Nations; 15. Return to Africa; 16. Ecosystem and Biosphere People; 17. The Edges of the Sea; 18. The Incident in Kinshasha; 19. Return to the South Pacific; 20. Back to the Land; 21. Damming Paradise; 22. Other Ways of Life. |
| Summary |
A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dasmann, Raymond Fredric, 1919-2002.
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Dasmann, Raymond Fredric, 1919-2002. |
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Dasmann, Raymond Fredric, 1919- |
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Conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
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Conservationists. |
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United States. |
| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dasmann, Raymond Fredric, 1919-2002. Called by the wild. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520229789 (DLC) 2001027683 (OCoLC)46791048 |
| ISBN |
9780520927407 (electronic book) |
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0520927400 (electronic book) |
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9780520229785 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520229789 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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