Across Russia’s easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power. Beginning in the 1840s, capitalism and then communism, with their ideas of progress, transformed the area around the Bering Strait into a historical experiment in remaking ecosystems. Rendered even more urgent in a warming climate, Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the impact that human needs and ambitions have brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet. • Shortlisted for the The Pushkin House Book Prize 2020.
| ISBN: | 9780393358322 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 2020 |
| Author: | Bathsheba (Brown University) Demuth |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Genres: |
Historical geography Environmental economics History of other geographical groupings and regions The Earth: natural history: general interest |