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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California´s Natural Resources
M. Kat Anderson
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Description for Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California´s Natural Resources
Paperback. Demonstrates, what John Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Num Pages: 558 pages, 31 b/w photographs, 13 line illustrations, 3 maps, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSL9; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 41. Weight in Grams: 846.
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today - that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of ... Read more
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today - that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
845g
Number of Pages
558
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280434
SKU
V9780520280434
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About M. Kat Anderson
M. Kat Anderson is a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis; Associate Ecologist at the Agricultural Experimental Station at the University of California, Davis; and a faculty member in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor, with T. C. Blackburn, of Before the Wilderness: Native Californians ... Read more
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