Disappearing destinations : 37 places in peril and what can be done to help save them /
Lisagor, Kimberly.
Disappearing destinations : 37 places in peril and what can be done to help save them / Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen. - 1st Vintage Departures ed. - New York : Vintage Departures, 2008. - xvi, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Foreword / Pico Iyer -- United States: Appalachia; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska; The Cascades and Mount Raineer, Washington; Casco Bay, Maine; The Everglades, Florida; Glacier National Park, Montana; Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee; Inner and Outer Banks, North Carolina; Napa Valley, California; Oahu, Hawaii; The Rio Grande; Yellowstone National Park -- Canada: Banks Island, Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay, Manitoba and Nunavut; Inside Passage, British Columbia -- The Caribbean: Bioluminescent Bays, Puerto Rico; Roatan, Honduras; Turks and Caicos Islands -- South America: Amazon Basin; Aysen, Patagonia, Chile; Chacaltaya, Bolivia; Galapagos, Ecuador; Machu Picchu, Peru -- Europe & The Middle East: The Alps; Boreal Forest, Lapland, Finland; Canary Islands, Spain; Danube River & Delta; Dead Sea, Israel & Jordan; Venice, Italy -- Africa: Congo Basin, Central Africa; Maasailand, Kenya -- Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Timbuktu, Mali -- Asia, Pacific Islands, & Australia: Everest National Park, Nepal; Tuvalu and Maldives; Yangtze River Valley, China; Great Barrier Reef, Australia -- Responsible travel resources -- Regional advocacy organizations.
0307277364 (pbk.) 9780307277367 (pbk.)
2007033400
Endangered ecosystems.
Nature conservation.
Voyages and travels.
Disappearing destinations : 37 places in peril and what can be done to help save them / Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen. - 1st Vintage Departures ed. - New York : Vintage Departures, 2008. - xvi, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Foreword / Pico Iyer -- United States: Appalachia; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska; The Cascades and Mount Raineer, Washington; Casco Bay, Maine; The Everglades, Florida; Glacier National Park, Montana; Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee; Inner and Outer Banks, North Carolina; Napa Valley, California; Oahu, Hawaii; The Rio Grande; Yellowstone National Park -- Canada: Banks Island, Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay, Manitoba and Nunavut; Inside Passage, British Columbia -- The Caribbean: Bioluminescent Bays, Puerto Rico; Roatan, Honduras; Turks and Caicos Islands -- South America: Amazon Basin; Aysen, Patagonia, Chile; Chacaltaya, Bolivia; Galapagos, Ecuador; Machu Picchu, Peru -- Europe & The Middle East: The Alps; Boreal Forest, Lapland, Finland; Canary Islands, Spain; Danube River & Delta; Dead Sea, Israel & Jordan; Venice, Italy -- Africa: Congo Basin, Central Africa; Maasailand, Kenya -- Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Timbuktu, Mali -- Asia, Pacific Islands, & Australia: Everest National Park, Nepal; Tuvalu and Maldives; Yangtze River Valley, China; Great Barrier Reef, Australia -- Responsible travel resources -- Regional advocacy organizations.
0307277364 (pbk.) 9780307277367 (pbk.)
2007033400
Endangered ecosystems.
Nature conservation.
Voyages and travels.