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Disappearing destinations : 37 places in peril and what can be done to help save them / Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Departures, 2008.Edition: 1st Vintage Departures edDescription: xvi, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0307277364 (pbk.)
  • 9780307277367 (pbk.)
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Contents:
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.
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A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.

Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is a destination long known for the stunning beauty of its ice floes, but in our lifetimes it will have no glaciers due to global warming. In the biobays of Puerto Rico swimmers can float in a sea shimmering with bioluminescent life, but sediment being churned up by development is killing the dinoflagellates that produce the eerie and beautiful glow. And in the Congo Basin of Africa, where great apes roam freely in lush, verdant rainforests, logging is quickly destroying the vast life-giving canopies. These places-along with many others across the globe-are changing as we speak due to global warming, environmental degradation, overuse, and natural causes.

From the Boreal Forests in Finland to the Yangtze River Valley in China, 37 Places to See Before They Disappear is a treasure trove of geographic wonder, and a guide to these threatened destinations and what is being done to save them.

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.

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