Atlas of Untamed Places (eBook)

A voyage through our extraordinary wild world

Chris Fitch (Autor)

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2017
208 Seiten
Aurum (Verlag)
9781781317242 (ISBN)

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In a world that has increasingly become tamed by human activity, the true wild holds a growing mysticism. Rugged landscapes with unspoilt scenery invoke romantic visions of paradise, but there are also intense and powerful wildernesses that produce fear and awe alike and unexplored zones where feral wildlife roams in the shadows. Chris Fitch takes you on a journey through the world's most wild places, visiting immensely diverse floral kingdoms, remote jungles abundant with exotic birds, and both freezing cold and scorching hot inhospitable environments. From these natural havens we travel to the extreme and the incredible: lightening inducing lakes, acidic mud baths, and man-eating tiger kingdoms. As well as those wildernesses being reclaimed by nature, such as Chernobyl, that after being left abandoned for years has returned to a natural wild habitat, free from human intervention. Not forgetting those most bizarre of destinations, such as the tidal surges of the Qiantang River, the bridge to Modo Island that emerges from the sea, and the strange magnetic pull of Jubuka rock. With beautiful maps and stunning photography, An Atlas of Untamed Places is an intrepid voyage to nature's most unusual, unpredictable, and extraordinarilywild destinations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Unexpected Atlases
• Reihe/Serie: Unexpected Atlases
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Karten / Stadtpläne / Atlanten
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adventure • Atlantic • Atlas • atlas of improbable places • atlas of remote islands • Atlas of the Unexpected • Atlas of Vanishing Places • beyond maps and atlases • Bhutan • bialoqieza forest • biodiversity • books about mapping • books about maps • cave of crystals • challenger deep • Charting • Chernobyl • conservation • Darien Gap • dead cities • Death Valley • desert • Diomede Islands • disappearing island • Discovery • DMZ • dome argus • Empty Quarter • Exploring • feral places • floating islands • floating landmasses • forgotten places • Furnace Creek • future mapping • future of mapping • gangkhar puensum • Geographical • Geography • Google Earth • Greenland • Green Line • GUAM • hang son doong • Herschel Island • hidden geographies • hidden kingdoms • hidden places • Himalayas • History • history of places • Humanity • human world • Illustrated • improbable places • inaccessible • Inini • Inspiration • Jabuka • Jubuka rock • kaffeklubben island • krubera • lac de gafsa • lake maracaibo • lake nyos • land and geography • Landscape • Locations • lost space • loughareema • maliau basin • map books • mapping • mapping the future • Maps • maps and geography • Meru • Modern maps • modo island • mount mabu • Namib Desert • National Park • NATURAL • natural world • Nature • nature reserves • Non-fiction • Non-Places • North Sentinel Island • off the map • off the map places • Paradise Lost • Planet • Pleistocene • pycho-geographyhidden places • qiantang river • secret wonders • Skeleton Coast • Sociology • Socotra • strange worlds • SUDD • top off the map places • Travel • tree of tenere • Tribes • unexpected Atlas series • uninhabited places • Unruly • Urban Explorers • weird places • Wild • Wilderness • wildest • wild places • world's most unusual corners • zones
• ISBN-13: 9781781317242 / 9781781317242