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The earth encompassed : a history of the environmental sciences

"This authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins, brilliantly bringing together the discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on Earth and created the new science of ecology. Book jacket."--Jacket

Print Book, English, [2000]
Norton, New York, [2000]